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The Triumph of Grace in Deuteronomy: Faithless Israel, Faithful Yahweh in Deuteronomy is unavailable, but you can change that!

Does the Old Testament have an optimistic outlook for the people of God, ancient Israel, or is it pessimistic? The strands of optimism and pessimism seem to be juxtaposed throughout. In this study of Deuteronomy, a lynchpin book within the Old Testament, the so-called tensions between optimism and pessimism are slow to cohere theologically. Despite the faithlessness of Israel, Yahweh's...

paradigm for hope in future failure, expressed in chapters 29 and 30. There is no reason therefore for not taking seriously the future aspect of chapters 29 and 30.15 The similar theological relationships in each of these accounts of Israel’s failure sheds light on the relation between the Horeb, Moab and Abrahamic covenants. We shall argue that Moab is a renewal of Horeb, not a replacement for it. Both have the same theological structure. Both await further acts of Yahweh’s grace. Nor is Horeb
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