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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....

familial lines (Cain, Abel and Seth) now effects all of humanity: “when people began to multiply on the face of the ground” (Gen 6:1). But the narrator extends the storyline one step further by including the “sons of God”—perhaps suggesting that the entire cosmos has been engulfed by, and enshrouded in, the destructive nature of sin. The emphasis on sin in the passage is intensified as language of Genesis 6:2 recalls the Garden scene in Genesis 3. The sons of God saw (rāʾāh) that the daughters
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