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Making Sense of the Old Testament: 3 Crucial Questions is unavailable, but you can change that!

Though essential to the Christian faith, the Old Testament remains an enigma to many. Some view it as disjointed and difficult to understand, or as nothing more than a collection of archaic documents, irrelevant for Christians today. In clear and concise language, Tremper Longman addresses three questions to help resolve this problem: • What are the keys to understanding the Old Testament? ...

of Israel were built on inclines, the possibility of falling off a roof was real. So the case law served the purpose of protecting human life. Like the law of the goring ox, it was an outworking of the sixth commandment, “Do not murder.” These two examples illustrate the relationship between the Decalogue and the rest of the law. The latter flows from the former. A number of studies have demonstrated this on a grand scale, at least in regard to the Book of Deuteronomy. The most convenient study,
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