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Old Testament Theology, Volume 3: Israel’s Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this third volume of his critically acclaimed Old Testament Theology, John Goldingay explores the Old Testament vision of Israel’s life before God. Goldingay sees three spheres of life giving order to Israel’s vision: its life in relation to God, its life in community and the life of the individual as a self. Within these frameworks he unfurls a tapestry that is as broad and colorful as all of...

The first volume of this study of the theology of the First Testament sought to describe Israel’s gospel: not its history as we might reconstruct it on the basis of sources within the First Testament and without, but its history as the First Testament wanted people to remember it and learn of it. Volume two sought to describe Israel’s faith: not what Israelites actually believed as we might infer it from within the First Testament (which records much critique of
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