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The Gospel of Genesis: Studies in Protology and Eschatology, 2nd Ed. is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Gospel of Genesis: Studies in Protology and Eschatology argues that there is an underlying eschatology in Genesis that foresees the sweep of redemptive history and the end of all things as, after the pattern of the beginning, a new creation. Gage examines the structure of, and literary parallels in, the historical records, identifying five major theological themes with a Genesis 1–7 basis. He...

Abraham’s sojourn in Egypt and the Joseph stories are logically subordinate.5 Likewise, the prophets of Israel so interpreted the captivity of Israel as requiring God to accomplish a second Exodus for His people (cf. Isa 51:9–11; Jer 23:7–8). Similarly the apostles interpreted the Christ-event as the deliverance of God’s Son from Egypt (Matt 2:15), the slaying of the passover Lamb (1 Cor 5:7) and the accomplishment of a greater Exodus (Luke 9:31, Greek text) resulting in the deliverance of God’s
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