Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and indexes.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Biblical theology and the land promise -- land promise in biblical scholarship -- Approach and assumptions -- plan of the book -- 2. beginning and the end: the land and the kingdom -- beginning and the end: God's eschatological goal of redemptive history -- In the beginning: creation and God's worldwide design -- end of the beginning -- promise of a new beginning -- new beginning: re-establishing the kingdom through covenant -- king(dom) of God is at hand: the beginning of the end -- In the end: the new creation and God's eschatological kingdom -- Conclusion -- 3. Making the promise: Genesis -- Genesis 1 -- 11: the preface to the promise of land -- Genesis 12 -- 50: the Abrahamic covenant and promise of land -- Conclusion -- 4. Advancing the promise: Exodus -- Deuteronomy -- Exodus: bound for the Promised Land -- Deuteronomy: the gift of land -- 5. Partially fulfilling the promise: Joshua -- Kings -- Joshua: the possession of the land -- David and Solomon: dwelling in the land -- Life after Solomon: decline and the dispossession of the land -- 6. Fulfilling the promise? Exile and the prophets of an eschatological hope -- Disobedience and the judgment of exile -- eschatological hope of the prophets -- Conclusion -- concluding summary of the Old Testament -- 7. fulfilment of the promise inaugurated: the Gospels -- land promise in New Testament theology -- Fulfilment in Matthew -- Fulfilment in John -- 8. fulfilment of the promise inaugurated: the epistles -- Fulfilment in Paul -- Fulfilment in Hebrews -- Fulfilment in Peter -- 9. fulfilment of the promise consummated: the eschatological kingdom in Revelation -- new creation as Edenic paradise -- new creation as temple -- new creation as city (new Jerusalem) -- concluding summary of the New Testament -- 10. Theological reflections -- Bound for the Promised Land: some theological implications.
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