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What the Old Testament Authors Really Cared about: A Survey of Jesus’ Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

Written from an irenic, evangelical perspective, this Old Testament survey is designed to unpack what the biblical authors most intended to communicate in the Scripture that Jesus read. As the corresponding volume to the previously published What the New Testament Authors Really Cared About (Kregel Academic, 2008), it is well-suited for use in a college, seminary, or church context Students of...

one family but all the families of the world would find blessing (11:26; cf. 12:3; 22:17b–18)! Through the patriarchal stories, the seed of the woman would triumph over infertility, captivity, oppression, and famine (12–50). How appropriate, then, that the book of Genesis closed with a lengthy poem that spoke of one from the tribe of Judah would restore nature and rule the nations (49:1–28, see esp. vv. 8–10).
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