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The Hope of Israel: The Resurrection of Christ in the Acts of the Apostles is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Hope of Israel highlights the sustained focus in Acts on the resurrection of Christ, bringing clarity to the theology of Acts and its purpose. Brandon Crowe explores the historical, theological, and canonical implications of Jesus’s resurrection in early Christianity and helps readers more clearly understand the purpose of Acts in the context of the New Testament canon. He also shows how the...

psalm to demonstrate that he is both David’s Son and David’s Lord (Luke 20:41–44). In Luke 20 Jesus speaks of his own authority over David, and likely his own preexistence.47 As the Son of David, Jesus is not inferior to David, because he is also David’s Lord. And by means of his resurrection, the Son of David achieves a reign superior to the reign of David himself. In Acts the lordship of Christ means that Jesus is exalted to the right hand of God, fulfilling Psalm 110. At Pentecost the heavenly
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