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The Torah Story: An Apprenticeship on the Pentateuch is unavailable, but you can change that!

Working knowledge of the Torah is essential for every serious student of the Scriptures. Written in an engaging and accessible voice, even while digging into difficult and complicated matters at a sophisticated level, The Torah Story emphasizes the content of the text itself, moving beyond debating dates and theories of authorship into understanding how these five key books of the Bible help us...

offers an interpretation of the event. Specifically, a narrative account of an event (real or fictional) offers a certain perspective and “spin.” The difference between Jesus died (a fact) and the Messiah died for sin according to the scripture (an interpretation of the fact) is all the difference in the world (see Hagner, 25). The opponents of Jesus who watched him die interpreted the significance of his death quite differently from the New Testament authors. For his opponents, and perhaps other
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