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While honoring the historical context and literary diversity of the Old Testament, Telling the Old Testament Story is a thematic reading that construes the OT as a complex but coherent narrative. Unlike standard, introductory textbooks that only cover basic background and interpretive issues for each Old Testament book, this introduction combines a thematic approach with careful exegetical...

The story of God’s creation-wide purposes for all humanity told across the preceding chapters of Genesis 1–11 clarifies that Israel has been chosen to be special not as an end in itself but for the missional purpose of being an instrument of blessing for the benefit of all the families of the earth. In OT terms, to be elected means to be chosen for a purpose on behalf of others. As we’ll see in the next section of the OT story, on this definition, election equals holiness. Soon God will work to form
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