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Interpreting the Old Testament Theologically: Essays in Honor of Willem A. VanGemeren is unavailable, but you can change that!

How should Christians read the Old Testament today? Answers to this question gravitate between two poles. On the one hand, some pay little attention to the gap between the Old Testament and today, reading the Old Testament like a devotional allegory that points the Christian directly to Jesus. On the other hand, there are folks who prioritize an Old Testament passage’s original context to such an...

In the kind providence of God, yesterday the mailman delivered to our house a package containing the newly released book, Salvation by Allegiance Alone: Rethinking Faith, Works, and the Gospel of Jesus the King.1 In this volume Matthew W. Bates argues convincingly that, contrary to prevailing opinion, in the New Testament the noun πίστις (pistis) does not mean merely “faith,”
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