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Redemptive Reversals and the Ironic Overturning of Human Wisdom is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Bible is full of ironic situations in which God overturns the world’s wisdom by doing the opposite of what is expected. In this new volume from respected New Testament scholar G. K. Beale, readers will see how God’s pattern of divine irony is exhibited in both judgment and salvation, finding its greatest expression in Jesus’s triumph over death through death on a cross. God has designed...

over serpents (see Gen. 1:28). Adam was the divine ambassador commissioned to rule the earth under God’s authority and on his behalf. Adam’s third purpose on earth focused on family obligations. Adam was to be the head of his household, as implied by his being created first and by the naming of his wife, as he had expressed his leadership of the animals by naming them.3 These latter two offices should probably be seen as aspects of his priestly duty: he was to rule the earth for God’s glory, and
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