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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...

between these two forms of command but presents them jointly while ignoring many ethical categories that we usually regard as essential” (such as those individualistic notions of guilt and responsibility); to put it positively, Leviticus has “an integrated cultic and ethical perspective.”36 The interweaving of purity concerns and ethical concerns (as we distinguish them) then makes it harder to reduce the latter to a “self-propelled human crusade.”37 Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells generated a
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