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Our Creator Redeemer: An Introduction to Biblical Covenant Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Much is at stake in evangelical Christian theology when considering “the covenants”—Old Testament and New Testament. Theologically, how do we align the concerns of a popular conservative Christian culture that may rightly worry about the place of the Ten Commandments in the public square with a message that often seems to stress that those same commandments have all been nailed to the cross? Is...

The notion of a covenant is unfamiliar to many. But the practice of a covenantal life was an integral part of the ancient cultures in the Near East. Tens of thousands of documents unearthed in the last decades show a wide range of legal agreements between individuals and between nations. Already in the eighteenth century B.C., such international covenants attached religious sanctions that involved the slaughter and cutting up of sacrificial beasts for the
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