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Jesus the Messiah: Tracing the Promises, Expectations, and Coming of Israel’s King is unavailable, but you can change that!

Few books have sought to exhaustively trace the theme of Messiah through all of Scripture, but this book does so with the expert analysis of three leading evangelical scholars. For the Bible student and pastor, Jesus the Messiah presents a comprehensive picture of both scriptural and cultural expectations surrounding the Messiah, from an examination of the Old Testament promises to their unique...

than two or three verses, most receiving only one. This mirrors chapters 37–50, where Joseph is destined to rule over his brothers and given preferential treatment by Jacob (37:3–4, 5–11, 34–35; 48:1–22), while Judah emerges as the leader among Jacob’s other sons (37:26–27; 38:1–26; 43:3–10; 44:14–34; 46:28). The preeminence of Judah and Joseph in Jacob’s oracle foreshadows the leadership of the two tribes in the early history of Israel (cf. Josh. 18:5). In predicting the “scepter” would not depart
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