Reddit reviews A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in Its Context

I took a class on the OT and used this book. It doesn't actually have the OT word for word, but does a good job explaining how the text came together and what certain things mean If you combine it with the New Oxford OT, it's a pretty good combo (the Oxford OT has good footnotes to help understand wtf is going on). That is, if you want a more academic representation of the text.