Loading…

Handbook on the Pentateuch is unavailable, but you can change that!

For more than twenty years, Victor Hamilton’s handbook has been introducing students to the Pentateuch. In this substantially revised second edition, Hamilton moves chapter by chapter, rather than verse by verse, through the Pentateuch. He examines the content, structure, and theology and provides useful commentary on overarching themes and connections between Old Testament texts. For those who...

George Mendenhall (1973: 200) lists six differences between covenant and law. We are interested here in how he states the difference between the two at the point of purpose. The purpose of covenant is to create a new relationship. The purpose of law is to regulate or perpetuate an existing relationship by orderly means. Similarly, Brevard Childs (1974: 383) comments, “The law defines the holiness demanded of the covenant people.… The measurement of holiness in terms of God’s
Page 189
Buy this book at Logos.com