our father, does so because he knows that Abraham was first a pagan before he placed his trust in Yahweh. So in fact he can be the father in faith of both Gentiles and Jews, just as Paul will go on to suggest that the eschatological order of redemption will be the full number of Gentiles first, and then “all Israel will be saved” (Rom 11:25–32). Here I would say that Wright, for all his insightful analyses of the subplots, has one too few subplots—we need a subplot about Abraham, and we need another
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