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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...

the land, covenant disobedience in the temporary withdrawal of its gifts and in its final loss. In 587 BC all the tangible marks of the empirical Israel had thus vanished and the question the exile raised was really, what was the nature of the true Israel and was such a body tied to any necessary political forms? Had Israel come to an end in 587 BC and did the destruction of the temple mean the end of Abrahamic election? Of course it did not, for all that was lost in 587 BC were the means by which
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