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Sealed with an Oath: Covenant in God’s Unfolding Purpose is unavailable, but you can change that!

“I will make an everlasting covenant with you …” (Isaiah 55:3). “Covenant” is a major theme in the Bible, and many Christian thinkers across the centuries have made it the organizing principle by which they understand the Old and New Testaments. The biblical material is undoubtedly plentiful, but some specific texts are also much disputed. Paul R. Williamson offers fresh readings of many...

1. brh (I)—‘to eat’ (reflecting the association between covenant initiation and a communal meal) 2. brh (II)—‘to see’ (with the derived meaning, ‘to choose, decide’, hence the noun conveys a decision, obligation) 3. birit—an Akkadian preposition meaning ‘between’ (suggesting agreement between two parties) 4. birtu—an Akkadian noun meaning ‘clasp, fetter’ (hence a covenant is a ‘bond’) 5. br—a biconsonantal stem meaning, ‘to set apart’ (hence a covenant is a specially designated or set-apart favour
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