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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...

this is not just sleeping on the job—this is someone who is ‘out for the count’!29 Alter’s perceptive literary studies of the Bible prove his point that if biblical scholars would widen the angle of their vision they might see something that astounds them: The biblical text may not be the whole cloth imagined by premodern Judeo-Christian tradition, but the confused textual patchwork that scholarship has found to displace such earlier views may prove upon further scrutiny to be purposeful pattern
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