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“Christians love the Bible, but they often do not know what to do with the Old Testament,” writes Westmont College professor Tremper Longman. Further, he points out that it includes many types of writing—history, prophecy, poetry, wisdom and apocalyptic. In this helpful volume he offers different strategies for understanding each of these important types of writing. Jesus made a point to tell...
from the ground and the blood of a demon god. It is no accident that there are similarities and differences between the Bible and the writings of the ancient Near East; writing like this was a way of denying the Babylonian account that gave such a low view of humanity as connected to the demonic and thus inherently evil. To be created from the breath of God, on the contrary, expresses a profound understanding of the dignity of humanity. While Genesis 1–2 teaches us little about how God created creation,
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