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Who Is God?: Key Moments of Biblical Revelation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Internationally respected scholar Richard Bauckham offers a brief, engaging study of divine revelation in Scripture. He probes the deep meaning of well-known moments in the biblical story in order to address the key question the Bible is designed to answer: Who is God? Accessible for laypeople and important to scholars, this volume begins by exploring three key events in the Bible in which God...

Gen. 28:13). This is the translation that coheres with what the Lord says to Jacob: “I am with you” (28:15). Jacob does not have to make the arduous ascent up the staircase to meet with God at the top. Nor does God’s communication with Jacob have to be mediated by the angels who are passing up and down the staircase. They are the divine messengers (“angel” means “messenger”) who are sent from heaven to do God’s will on earth. They symbolize communication between heaven and earth. But in Jacob’s dream
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