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Covenant: The Framework of God’s Grand Plan of Redemption is unavailable, but you can change that!

Leading scholar Daniel Block helps students of the Bible understand the big picture of God’s covenants with humanity as they play out in both the Old and New Testaments. After fifty years of teaching and preaching experience around the globe, Block brings a lifetime of study and reflection on the Old Testament and relationship with God to this comprehensive volume. The book focuses on God’s...

Shalmaneser III, the Assyrian imperial overlord, had deputized him to govern on his behalf. This image and its inscription reflect an administrative relationship agreed upon by suzerain and vassal, analogous to YHWH’s relationship to Adam in Genesis 1–2. However, unlike Genesis 1–2, it does not speak of the Aramaean vassal as an image of his Assyrian overlord. Rather, the expressions apply to the physical image bearing the inscription. Presumably dmwt, “likeness,” applies to the statue’s physical
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