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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...

of Ezekiel. In these passages the prophet is careful never to say that he saw God or his entourage, but only the likeness of God. A third suggestion is the reverse of the second one. Thus, “likeness” does not soften the concept about “image,” but rather amplifies it. The human being is not simply an image of God, but a likeness-image. That is, more than simply representative, human beings are representational of the invisible God. Whatever the best explanation may be on this technical matter, it
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