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Canon, Covenant and Christology: Rethinking Jesus and the Scriptures of Israel is unavailable, but you can change that!

‘All Scripture is breathed out by God …’ (2 Timothy 3:16). From Paul’s epistles the divine inspiration of Scripture may be confidently affirmed, as well as its corollary attributes. However, on turning to Jesus and the Gospels, it is hard to find an explicit approach like Paul’s. Matthew Barrett argues that Jesus and the apostles have just as convictional a doctrine of Scripture as Paul or...

tapestry occurs is the covenant. Yahweh cuts a covenant with his people, making certain covenant promises he intends to fulfil. After making those covenant promises, he performs mighty acts to fulfil his covenant word (if not in full at least in part), only to return and interpret what his mighty acts mean and how they serve to fulfil his original covenantal word. In short, God not only speaks but is his own interpreter. We can label this a word-act-word revelation, and it is one that takes on inscripturated
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