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The Promise-Plan of God: A Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the central theme of the Bible? Given the diversity of authorship, genre, and context of the Bible’s various books, is it even possible to answer such a question? Or in trying to do so, is an external grid being unnaturally superimposed on the biblical text? These are difficult questions that the discipline of biblical theology has struggled to answer. In this thoroughly revised and...

The purpose and teaching of the book of Genesis are found in its literary structure. Eleven times, the phrase “This is the account of …” introduces each new section (Ge 2:4; 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10, 27; 25:12, 19; 36:1, 9; 37:2).1 Accordingly, this repeated phrase serves as a framework for the whole book and shows that there was a continuum
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