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Covenant and Creation: An Old Testament Covenant Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

God’s grace demonstrated in the biblical narrative through the lens of covenant. This study analyses the different divine covenants of the Old Testament and argues that they are closely related. The successive covenants, from Noah to David, are seen to express the divine purpose for humanity from the creation onwards. William Dumbrell interacts extensively with attempts to explain the...

first pursuit, ‘I am establishing (i.e. am confirming) my (previous) covenant’ (vv. 9, 17, my translation). The post-flood revelation to Noah (Gen. 9:1–7) reinvokes Genesis 1:26–28 as the continuance of God’s covenant intentions expressed through the original creation, and thus presumably the content of the creation covenant, together with the exposition of Genesis 2 of how life within the world is to proceed. The design of the use seems to have been to register the divine intention for creation
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