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True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

This pioneering commentary sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. Cutting-edge scholarship that is in tune with African American churches calls into question many of the canons of traditional biblical research and highlights the role of the Bible in African American history, accenting themes of ethnicity, class, slavery, and African heritage...

intent—a covenant family including both Jews and Gentiles. Later, Paul appeals again to Abraham as justification for the primacy of faith (3:15–20). God established a covenant with Abraham on the basis of God’s grace and Abraham’s faith. According to Paul’s calculation, this covenant predated the giving of the law on Mount Sinai by 430 years. Thus, faith is chronologically prior to the law and is the precondition upon which the law is founded.
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