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The Covenant Formula: An Exegetical and Theological Investigation is unavailable, but you can change that!

An important contribution to a canonical interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. God’s covenant with Israel is one of the most important themes of Old Testament scholarship: “I will be your God, you shall be my people.” Yet this has only rarely been the focus of a comprehensive study. Professor Rendtorff explores the different ways the covenant formula is used in the Bible, its structural and...

baskets of figs, some very good and some very bad. In the divine interpretative saying, the good figs are identified with the Judaeans in exile. They are told that God will look graciously on them and grant them the favourable destiny of a return to their own country. This proclamation reaches its climax in the sentence: ‘I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yhwh: and they shall be a people for me and I will be God for them, for they shall return to me with their whole heart’ (v. 7). This
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