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Imagine someone who has spent a lifetime listening deeply and attentively to the full range of Scripture’s testimony. Stepping back, they now describe what they have seen and heard. What emerges is a theological cathedral, laid out on the great vectors of Scripture and fitted with biblically sourced materials. This is what John Goldingay has done. Well known for his three-volume Old Testament...

to a new and more fundamental plane” by means of “an ethic of love-patriarchalism.”43 The basic idea then is “the willing acceptance of given inequalities” and “making them fruitful for the ethical values of personal relationships” with the possibility that one might “alter given conditions from within outwards, without touching the external aspect at all.”44 The approach of the Torah will then become newly important. Israel is God’s chosen people.45 The community of people
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