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In this first volume in the Library of Biblical Theology series, Walter Brueggemann portrays the key components in Israel's encounter with God as recorded in the Hebrew Bible. Creation, election, Torah, the divine hand in history; these and other theological high points appear both in their original historical context, and their ongoing relevance for contemporary Jewish and Christian...

the conquest as a twin event that reenacts the exodus in a new venue, both times featuring YHWH as the aggressive perpetrator of the new order. The twinning of the two events that feature YHWH as warrior is evident in the “as” of the theologically self-conscious statement of Joshua: For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you crossed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we crossed over, so that all the peoples of the earth may
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