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Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of Genesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

According to the author, his purpose is to “help the reader appreciate the major literary and theological motifs that form the theological ideas in the narratives, and to demonstrate how these theological ideas can be developed into clear and accurate expository ideas.” To accomplish this goal, Ross introduces four approaches to the study of Genesis—literary-analytical, form-critical,...

their central march. He came to Shechem, Bethel, Ai, and the Negev; they would go up from the Negev to Bethel, Ai, and Shechem, where the covenant would be enacted (Josh. 24). But God required faith for any generation that wished to share in those promised blessings. Israel thus shared the same call that their founding ancestor received—to go on a pilgrimage by faith to the Land of Promise and to worship and proclaim God there. They would have to believe in the promises in order to go, and their
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