This is the story behind the Old Testament. It is both the story of how the book came to be and they story of the people who shaped it. Anthony Gilles uses a lively combination of Scripture scholarship and imaginative storytelling to capture for the reader a sense of powerful faith, faith in a God who invites this people into a love relationship that endures despite their unfaithfulness. In these pages we meet the mean and women whose faith motivated the preservation of this love story. Though often nameless, these storytellers and theologians-the Yahwist, the Chronicler, the Deuteronomist and others-were the human sources for the story of “the People of the Book”. Let this guidebook be your companion as you come to know the exciting world that is the Old Testament.