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Horizons in Biblical Theology 32 (2010) 99-127 brill.nl/hbthb ll l/hb h © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/187122010X496432 Book Reviews Sin. A History . By Gary A. Anderson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Pp. 253. $30. In this wonderfully written volume, the author explains his goals as follows: First, to trace the “origin of sin as a debt back to those places in the Old Testament where it initially appears,” and secondly, “to tell how almsgiving emerged as such an important spiritual practice among Jews and Christians in the early postbiblical . .. period” (p. x). The volume is divided into three parts. Part One describes how sin was viewed in the earlier sections of the Hebrew Bible and how the image of sin as a debt arose. Part Two picks up on the image of sin as a debt and works it through the later portions of the Hebrew Bible, the subsequent rabbinic period and that also of the early Church. Part Three goes back to the biblical period and shows how almsgiving became a means of securing forgiveness from God. One may fittingly describe the volume as wonderful for two reasons. One is that
Horizons in Biblical Theology – Brill
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