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God’s People in God’s Land: Family, Land, and Property in the Old Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

In recent sociological approaches to the Old Testament, Christians have been finding unexpected resources for their ethical reflection and action relative to the modern world’s pressing social and economic dilemmas. This unique survey by Christopher Wright examines life in Old Testament Israel from an ethical perspective by considering how the economic facts of Israel’s social structure were...

derive in any sense from Israel’s own action or merits. In this respect, Israel’s sonship is a datum which corresponds entirely with the unconditional, indicative datum of their election. Israel is the firstborn son of Yahweh for no other reason than that Yahweh brought them as a nation into existence, just as they are the people of Yahweh for no other reason than that he “set his love upon” them and chose them for himself (Deut. 7:6–7). 2. The individual level. The Israelites are addressed as sons
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