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Theology in Exodus: Biblical Theology in the Form of a Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

This groundbreaking book points to a fresh new way of doing biblical theology. Donald Gowan organizes his study of the book of Exodus like a traditional commentary, following the text of Exodus from beginning to end. Unlike a traditional commentary, however, Gowan asks only one question of Exodus: what does this book say about God? He then traces the major affirmations about God found in Exodus...

nineteen of those he changes his mind away from an intended or actual judgment of sinful people. Among the other five uses, only one is from mercy to judgment. Jeremiah proposes a hypothetical case, claiming that if a nation does evil, God will change his mind about his intended blessings (Jer. 18:10). In two passages the word is used twice each to speak of God’s regret that something intended for good has not worked out: the creation of human beings (Gen. 6:6, 7) and the selection of Saul to be
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