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Questions to Guide Your Reading
The Jerome Biblical Commentary: "Covenant" 1. Why, according to the author, is the relationship of Yahweh and Israel unique in the religions of the ancient world? 2. What are some of the analogies for the relationship fo God to Israel used in the Old Testament? What, according to the author, is the one that is most basic and the "key" to all the others? 3. What originally was a "covenant"? 4. What is G. E. Mendhenhall's thesis about the form of the Israelite covenant with God? 5. Why, according to the author, should the "election" of Israel be seen not as an elevation to a position of privilege? 6. What have recent studies hown to be the "priniciple" of Israel's unity as a people? Compare this with what Walter Brueggemann has to say about the "primal narrative" of the Old Testament? |