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In Knowing God the Father Through the Old Testament, Christopher J. H. Wright explores the images that pervade the biblical narratives, psalms, and prophetic texts of the Old Testament. God is acknowledged as tender yet terrifying, challenging to the nations yet intimately personal, offering loving care, provision, discipline, and forgiveness. This is the God Jesus knew—and whom we can know—as...

texts (in intention, or in later canonical reading) in which we can identify the pre-incarnate second person of the Trinity whom we now know through Jesus of Nazareth. Furthermore, it is also clear that in the New Testament, the most remarkable thing that happened in the faith of the earliest followers of Jesus is that they came to identify him, Jesus, with Yahweh, in calling him Lord, and in many other ways.4 So, yes, it is certainly true from a whole-Bible perspective, that the God Yahweh of the
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