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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...

Abraham, Hagar, Sarah, Ishmael, Isaac, Moses and Jesus Christ, recounts events in the life of Abraham, the giving of the law and God’s sending of his Son and Spirit, and elucidates the significance of one Jewish institution at length—the law—along with some tantalizingly brief comments about the city of Jerusalem. Some readers may question our inclusion of certain passages. For example, Snodgrass argues that the parable of the tenants is not exactly a story of Israel. ‘It is not precise to describe
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