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Old Testament Essentials: Creation, Conquest, Exile and Return is unavailable, but you can change that!

“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...

creation, no precise definition is given of the meaning of this phrase. However, by studying the word image elsewhere in Scripture, we observe its use in connection with human kings who set up images of themselves around their kingdom to represent their power and authority. On analogy, then, human beings represent God’s presence, power and authority in the world. We reflect God’s glory like the moon reflects the light of the sun. These and other features of the creation accounts in Genesis 1–2 emphasize
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