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A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament: 2nd Edition is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book has become a standard text in seminary and university classrooms. The purpose of this second edition is to help readers come to a critically informed understanding of the Old Testament as the church's scripture. This book introduces the Old Testament both as a witness of ancient Israel and as a witness to the church and synagogue through the generations of those who have passed these...

Sinai covenant (31:29), but also that God's "sworn oath" (29:12, 14) will not let that failure rule the future (see Lev 26:40-45). Judgment will fall, but this covenant assures the people that "when all these things have happened" (30:1)—judgment, exile, and repentance—God will "transform the curse into blessing, the command into promise, and the stipulation into gift."6 The command that the people circumcise their hearts (10:16) becomes a promise that God will do that; God will enable the people
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