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  • ISBN: 1844741656
  • Category: Christian Books
  • Author: Paul R. Williamson
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press (January 19, 2007)
  • Pages: 256 pages
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Sealed with an Oath is a "must read" for anyone exploring the covenants of the Bible. While other books undoubtedly offer a more approachable introduction to covenant in biblical theology, Sealed With an Oath is a helpful addition.

Sealed with an Oath is a "must read" for anyone exploring the covenants of the Bible. This book will particularly benefit pastors teaching and seminary students studying divine-human covenants.

Paul R. Williamson looks at the role of the covenant concept in Scripture and the meaning of this terminology. He then sets the idea of covenant in the context of God's universal purpose, and traces the idea through Noah and the patriarchs, the nation of Israel and the kingship of David. Lastly, he shows how the new covenant is anticipated in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the Ne. illiamson offers new insights into key texts and issues related to the theme of covenant. He is not afraid to challenge established positions.

Biblical Theology and the Covenant Concept Paul R. Williamson is lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew at Moore Theological College, Sydney, Australia.

Biblical Theology and the Covenant Concept. Covenant and God's Universal Purpose. God's Universal Covenant With Noah. God's Programmatic Covenants with the Patriarchs. Paul R. He has written several books, including Abraham, Israel, and the Nations.

Sealed with an Oath book. In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Williamson offers new insights into key texts and issues related to the theme of covenant. Lastly, he shows how the new covenant is anticipated in the Old Testament and Paul R. Williamson looks at the role of the covenant concept in Scripture and the meaning of this terminology

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New Studies in Biblical Theology 23. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2007 .

Paul Williamson's Sealed with an Oath is a convincing explanation of the relationship of the various OT and NT covenants. The book is well organized, containing author and Scripture indices and an appendix. The preface is so succinctly written that the summary below is excerpted from it.

Covenant in God’s Unfolding Purpose. By Paul R. Williamson. Covenant in God’s Unfolding Purpose

Covenant in God’s Unfolding Purpose. Downers Grove, InterVarsity Press, 2007. It is a study of the Hebrew and Greek terms for covenant in their context. Th e author defines a covenant as a solemn commitment, guaranteeing promises or obligations under- taken by one or both parties, sealed with an oath (p. 11), and understands the various biblical covenants made by God to be major structural components of the meta-narrative of the Bible (pp. 17-19). Covenant in God’s Unfolding Purpose.

Series: New Studies in Biblical Theology. Page Count: 256. Author: Paul R Williamson. Covenant In God'S Unfolding Purpose. By Paul R Williamson. ISBN-13: 9781844741656.

Some of the topics include a Biblical Theology on Material Possessions, Race, the Dwelling Place of God, Pastoral Traditions and Leadership, Covenant in God's Unfolding Purpose, and Preaching in the New Testament. A Biblical Theology of Preaching

Some of the topics include a Biblical Theology on Material Possessions, Race, the Dwelling Place of God, Pastoral Traditions and Leadership, Covenant in God's Unfolding Purpose, and Preaching in the New Testament. A Biblical Theology of Preaching. The New Studies in Biblical Theology will help you think critically about each of the covered topics, and provide content for sermons and lessons

Sealed with an oath COVENANT IN GOD'S UNFOLDING PURPOSE. Thesis (DLitt (Ancient Studies The story of Joseph, Jacob's son, unfolds as possibly the earliest description of a psychotherapeutic intervention to resolve a long-standing family crisis.

Sealed with an oath COVENANT IN GOD'S UNFOLDING PURPOSE. Thesis (DLitt (Ancient Studies. The Vorlage of the explicit quotations in Hebrews remains an unresolved matter to date – despite the fact that it is an important pre-requisite before one can attempt to investigate the function of the quotations within their NT context. The story of Joseph, Jacob's son, unfolds as possibly the earliest description of a psychotherapeutic intervention to resolve a long-standing family crisis.


Reviews about Sealed with an Oath: Covenant in God's Unfolding Purpose (New Studies in Biblical Theology) (5):
Ramsey`s
Recently, I was preaching on the Covenants at our church. The truth is that I had not studied this issue much since Seminary and I needed a good resource to lean on during my preparation to serve as sort of a "reminder" or "refresher course". This book provided that and more. It was a fair, balanced approach to the covenants. It was academic enough to get into the details but not so academic as to be useless for a pastor trying to do sermon prep in amongst all the other stuff we do. There is really a lack of good accessible resources on this topic from trusted theologians and most of what is out there centers on "Covenant Theology" rather than the covenants themselves. My usual starting point on a sermon like this would Theological Dictionaries, Bible Dictionaries etc. but they all came up lacking on this topic.

The content of the book is about 200 pages, plus a thorough bibliography. If you need to give yourself a quick refresher as I did, you can easily skip portions of each chapter when the author launches into several pages on a particular theological debate related to one of the covenants, or takes several pages to go deeper than you need to go. If you are writing a theology paper for seminary, you'll find those sections helpful and interesting. You could easily read about 100 pages of this book and get a really good handle on it. (And by the way, you really can preach a 45 minute sermon encapsulating all the covenants . . . I did!)

For non-pastors or non-academic types . . . the language here is not overly heady, or overly bogged down in the original languages. I would feel comfortable recommending this to any lay person who has reasonable reading skills.

And you can't really go wrong with a book edited by DA Carson.
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Anarasida
This book follows the covenants which God has made with people throughout the Bible. It begins with Noah, then Abraham, Moses/Israel, David and the new covenant. The beginning of the book helps to flesh out a definition for the word "covenant" since it can be a rather nebulous idea. He defines a covenant as: "a solemn commitment, guaranteeing promises or obligations undertaken by one or both parties, sealed with an oath." After defining what a covenant is, he spends the rest of the book surveying the major covenants in the Bible. The strength of this book comes in its extensive exegesis, which is undertaken on each of the covenants. The author is particularly strong at helping to explain each of the major covenants in the Old Testament. He walks us through the text of each of the major covenants and deals with any exegetical questions which arise from the text. The final three chapters of the book deal with the new covenant in its Old Testament proclamation, its New Testament discussion and the ultimate, future fulfillment which is to come. I found his New Testament discussion and exegesis to be much more brief and cursory than that of the Old Testament but found extremely helpful insights throughout the book.

Overall, I would strongly recommend this book to anyone looking to survey what the Bible has to say about covenants. It faithfully walks us through the Bible from cover to cover and thus lives out its stated goal of providing a Biblical Theology.
Drelajurus
Williamson wrote an excellent work on the covenants in Scripture. He begins with a discussion of the concept of covenant in biblical and theological scholarship. He (rightly in my view) discounts the concept of an overarching covenant of grace. This approach flattens out the diverse covenants of Scripture. It is therefore better to speak of one "unfolding purpose" of God worked out through the various covenants. Williamson also argues against a covenant with creation or Adam. The biblical covenants begin with Noah. Williamson's treatment of the Noahic covenant, an often neglected covenant, is excellent. He also provides a helpful treatment of the New Covenant, which he sees as replacing the Mosaic covenant. To this point I have remained unconvinced by his thesis that Genesis 15 and 17 represent two Abrahamic covenants, one conditional and one unconditional. I also remain unconvinced by his mild supercessionism. Disagreements aside, this is a major contribution to the discussion of the biblical covenants and one to which I'll turn often in the future.

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