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Dominion and Dynasty: A Biblical Theology of the Hebrew Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christian theologians rarely study the Old Testament in its final Hebrew canonical form, even though this was very likely the Bible used by Jesus and the early church. However, once read as a whole, the larger structure of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) provides a “wide-angle lens” through which its contents can be viewed. Stephen G. Dempster argues that, despite its undoubted literary diversity, the...

The narrative ‘bookends’ of this Text, Genesis and Chronicles, are very different. Genesis is about beginnings: the beginning of the world, of humanity, of sin and death, of civilization, and of the nation of Israel through the call of the patriarchs. Chronicles is largely about the Israelite nation, with a focus on David, Jerusalem, and the temple. It describes the rise and fall of the southern kingdom of Judah, closing with a graphic description
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