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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...

However, the parable of the wicked tenants is not just a way of explaining what was to become of the temple. This parable summarizes the story of Israel as Jesus himself told it. In the parable of the wicked tenants we have the story of Israel told in its most tragic form. Therefore, the story of Israel in the parable of the wicked tenants is this: God entrusted his people, Israel, with the covenantal blessing of his presence. However, when God’s prophets held the people accountable to keep their
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