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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...

rulers of the earth, representing the mighty name of God throughout the world. They are the recipients of blessing, which includes not only their status but also the ability to transmit the image of God by creating life. Thus, there is a deliberate anthropological climax in Genesis 1 with the creation of humanity as the ‘image’ and ‘likeness’ of God.11 In a deft literary move, with the use of these terms the writer makes the goal of creation anthropological and thus doxological, since to crown the
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