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Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nations is unavailable, but you can change that!

Walter Kaiser questions the notion that the New Testament represents a deviation from God’s supposed intention to save only the Israelites. He argues that—contrary to popular opinion—the older testament does not reinforce an exclusive redemptive plan. Instead, it emphasizes a common human condition and God’s original and continuing concern for all humanity. Kaiser shows that the Israelites’...

third-century BC Greek Septuagint translation of this passage, the Greek grammatical rule of agreement between the pronoun and the neuter antecedent was deliberately broken in this single instance alone, out of some 150 instances in the book of Genesis, to show that the translators understood the text was speaking of a coming male. All this was done about three centuries before the Christian era had arrived! Most surprising of all, however, the male child of the woman’s “seed” would strike back by
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