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Knowing Jesus in the Old Testament? A Fresh Look at Christophanies is unavailable, but you can change that!

The language of ‘christophanies’ is used technically by scholars to refer to appearances of the incarnate Son of God after his resurrection, as narrated in the New Testament Gospels and Acts. At a more popular level, though, the term is increasingly applied to alleged appearances of the pre-incarnate Son in the Old Testament. That Jesus appeared to—and was even recognized by—the likes of Abraham...

a leading Christian publisher; it is titled an Evangelical summary and intended to be an authoritative textbook for future generations of theological thinkers and leaders; it focuses on God’s trinitarian revelation of himself through both testaments of Scripture; and it sold out and a second printing was commissioned within weeks of release. It seems certain to cement Old Testament ‘christophanies’ further in the vocabulary and interpretative practices of conservative Bible readers.
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