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Insights from a noteworthy convergence of top scholars in biblical studies and missiology. Over the past half century, it has become clear that mission is a central theme in the Bible’s narrative and, moreover, is central to the very identity of the church. This book significantly widens and deepens the emerging conversation on missional hermeneutics. Essays from top biblical and missiological...

gentiles. In Romans 15:9 Paul quotes Psalm 18:49 (cf. 2 Sam. 22:50), a declarative psalm of praise in which David vows to praise God among the nations, which may be considered to be an “O.T. anticipation of N.T. evangelism.”5 Moreover, together with Psalm 18:49, Paul also quotes Psalm 117:1 in Romans 15:11: “Rejoice, O gentiles, with his people,” in order to support his claim (in 15:8–9) that “Christ has become a servant of the Jews on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs
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