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This book is written specifically for students at the start of courses in the Bible, theology and ministry, and for those searching for a deeper understanding of the theology of the Bible. Grindheim draws on insights from scholarship and tradition to answer major theological questions in a highly accessible form using examples, revision questions, and charts.

When God prepared Moses for what he was going to do in Egypt, he told him: “I am [Yahweh]. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name [Yahweh] I did not make myself known to them” (Exod. 6:2–3). This statement is surprising to us because we find the name Yahweh (Lord) frequently in the Bible, even before the account in Exodus 6 (Gen. 2:4 etc.). To understand what God means, we must consider the full significance of the verb “to make known.” That God made himself
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