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Using a canonical approach, in which he explores the Old Testament as a whole—rather than the teachings of individual Old Testament authors—Professor Gowan traces the hopes of the people of Israel for a better future. He concludes that for God to make things right, a three-fold transformation of the world must take place: God must transform the human person, human society, and nature itself. This...

which the positive Zion theology was a problem to be struggled with, such reticence is not at all surprising. Although the number of occurrences of the theme in each book is not large, there are significant texts that are evidence for a Jeremiah tradition and an Ezekiel tradition concerning Jerusalem of the future, supporting the proposal that expressions of hope in the OT could scarcely be formulated without putting that city in a prominent place. A more significant indication of the centrality
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