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Biblical Theology according to the Apostles: How the Earliest Christians Told the Story of Israel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although relatively few in number, the New Testament’s explicit summaries of the Old Testament story (e.g., Acts 7, Rom 9–11, and Heb 11) give readers direct access into the way the earliest Christians told Israel’s story, which is to say, into the way they did biblical theology. These curiously-overlooked summaries are the subject of this study. The first part focuses on the summaries of...

statement: the kingdom will be ‘taken from you’. This shift highlights the fundamental point that the parable is making: Israel’s history would culminate with the establishment of God’s kingdom, as this audience was expecting, but membership in the kingdom was dependent on connection and submission to the cornerstone of this mountain kingdom. No Israelite could be included in this everlasting kingdom while continuing to reject God’s messengers and God himself. That is to say, the everlasting kingdom
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