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Metaphysics and the God of Israel: Systematic Theology of the Old and New Testaments is unavailable, but you can change that!

There are those who question the possibility of even a biblical theology of the Old and New Testaments. In this exciting, new, and original book Neil MacDonald seeks to put back on the theological agenda not merely a biblical theology, but a systematic theology, of the Old and New Testaments. Indeed, he believes that it is only by understanding the Old and New Testaments in terms of the identity...

It is entirely reasonable to understand the Priestly creation narrative as a redaction of an already extant narrative whose subject-matter is the personal and historical relationship—beginning at the exodus from Egypt—between the God of Israel and his people “Israel.” The people “Israel” have the historical experience of being in a presently occurring personal relationship with this God. When “Israel” claims that the God who is responsible for this
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