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The Story of Israel: A Biblical Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

The biblical story of Israel, in its election, sin, exile, and restoration, is a finely articulated drama—the universal story of the glory and the plight of humanity and creation. And the story of Jesus, who was born from the womb of Israel as its Messiah and as the true seed of Abraham, provides the redemptive solution to the plight of both Israel and the world. This book by C. Marvin Pate, J....

the remainder of the Pentateuch. In the movement from sin to exile to restoration, these blessings are challenged, thus threatening the creative design of God. The first blessing relates to the orderliness of creation. The highly poetic design of Genesis 1, with the repetition of numerous words and phrases, suggests that the author intended to present creation as an act of ultimate order.1 The repetition of the phase “and God saw that it was good” suggests that from the beginning creation fulfilled
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