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Horst Preuss begins a comprehensive, two volume analysis of the theology of the Old Testament with this edition. He focuses on a detailed assessment of Israel’s responses to God’s acts of election and covenant with them as a people. This highly applicable study provides a theological lens through which to properly understand many of the books of the Old Testament and their relation to the whole. ...

the evidence that will be set forth. The activity of YHWH’s election is expressed in this fashion some ninety-nine times.4 Thus it becomes immediately clear that this concept is not an unimportant idea within the Old Testament (altogether the term ḅhr occurs 146 times). There are thirteen instances that mention that either something or someone has been “elected” by YHWH: for example, Moses (Ps. 106:23), David (Ps. 89:4), and the servant of God (Isa. 42:1). In looking at the distribution of the specifically
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