God and his people : covenant and theology in the Old Testament / Ernest W. Nicholson.
God's covenant with Israel has been a central theme in the study of the Old Testament since ancient times and has been a particularly prominent issue in biblical study during the last hundred years. This book shows that the debate over the covenant held during the last century has made it possi...
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1986.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1: Covenant in a century of study since Wellhausen
- A time of controversy (1878-1918)
- The controversy ended
- Treaty and covenant
- Covenant as a theological idea
- pt. 2: The origin of the covenant between God and Israel : key texts
- 'They saw God and ate and drank'--a covenant meal at Sinai? (Exodus 24:1-2, 9-11)
- Apostasy and renewal of the covenant at Sinai (Exodus 34:10-28)
- A covenant at Shechem (Joshua 24:1-28)
- The covenant ritual at Sinai (Exodus 19:3b-8 and 24:3-8)
- Covenant texts in Hosea
- pt. 3: God and his people
- The covenant and the distinctiveness of Israel's faith.