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This handbook serves as an introduction to the Jewish roots of the Christian Faith. It includes Old Testament background, Second Temple Judaism, the life of Jesus, the New Testament, the early Jewish followers of Jesus, the historical interaction between Judaism and Christianity, and the contemporary period. It is no longer a novelty to say that Jesus was a Jew. In fact, the term “Jewish roots”...

Because of the presence of these two separate covenant narratives, some scholars suggest that Gen 15 and 17 represent two distinct covenants, the former an unconditional covenant and the latter a conditional covenant (Williamson 2007; Alexander 2012). The major problem with this view, as is well pointed out by others (Niehaus 2013; Gentry and Wellum 2015; Todd 2017), is the fact that all other passages in the Hebrew Bible (as well as the New Testament) only and always refer to one covenant God made
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