Product Description

Jeremiah is the longest book in the Bible about probably the most reluctant prophet in the Bible. The people had broken their covenant with God and he prophesied judgment on them. Beyond this there is hope however as God, like a potter, can refashion his people.
Lamentations features the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC and the LORD’s rejection of his people. Hope and mercy dominate the closing sections.
Ezekiel was prophet to the exiles in Babylon during 593-573 BC his message centres on the people’s sin and God’s justice. The people will be restored to the LORD and their land and readers may be particularly familiar with Ezekiel’s vision of the Valley of Dry Bones.

Abridged for the general listener in favour of the wealth of characters in the Old Testament, its poetry and its narrative. Such things as genealogies, instructions regarding certain rituals and some of the law had to give way to the stories and the poetry. Some of the stories are trimmed of some repeated details.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1813355 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-16
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Binding: Audio Cassette

About the Author
Geoffrey Palmer is a well-known actor starring in films: Tomorrow Never Dies; TV: Butterflies, As Time Goes By.

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Customer Reviews

Very good, but incomplete
If you would like to listen to someone reading parts of the Old Testament to you rather than doing it yourself, then these tapes are for you. Various well-known British actors read from the Bible in its "New International Version", a now widely used and quite accurate translation into contemporary English of both the Old and New Testaments completed some twenty years ago.

However, there are some areas of improvement. The most serious flaw is that it is not complete: the second part of the Book of Daniel, for instance, is ignored. Also, there are always some verses or even words missing in a chapter that is included. Finally, hearing the chapter numbers instead of the headings at the beginning of each chapter would make locating a passage easier.

Apart from those OT tapes, there also exists a corresponding set of tapes to the NT, with the important difference that it offeres the complete New Testament, with no parts at all left out, and chapter numbers. It is to be hoped that in the future, both the OT and the NT set would be published on CD.