“Carvalho’s text includes everything I want in terms of content and substantive issues, and it provides wonderful guided readings of numerous biblical texts. Students have been responding very well to it; they appreciate the insight it offers and the things it brings to their attention that they never noticed before. I have used several different texts since I started teaching our new ‘History and Literature of the Old Testament’ course, but I haven’t used the same one for more than one semester. Now I think I have found the book I’m going to stick with!