Bound for the Promised Land : the land promise in God's redemptive plan /
Martin, Oren R.author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and indexes.
Biblical theology and the land promise. The land promise in biblical scholarship ; Approach and assumptions ; The plan of the book -- The beginning and the end : the land and the kingdom. The beginning and the end : God's eschatological goal of redemptive history ; In the beginning : creation and God's worldwide design ; The end of the beginning ; The promise of a new beginning ; A new beginning : re-establishing the kingdom through covenant ; The king(dom) of God is at hand : the beginning of the end ; In the end : the new creation and God's eschatological kingdom ; Conclusion -- 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 -- Advancing the promise : Exodus-Deuteronomy. Exodus : bound for the promised land ; Deuteronomy : the gift of land -- 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 -- Fulfilling the promise? : Exile and the prophets of an eschatological hope. Disobedience and the judgment of exile ; The eschatological hope of the prophets ; Conclusion -- A concluding summary of the Old Testament -- The fulfillment of the promise inaugurated : the gospels. The land promise in the New Testament theology ; Fulfilment in Matthew ; Fulfilment in John -- The fulfilment of the promise inaugurated : the epistles. Fulfilment in Paul ; Fulfilment in Hebrews ; Fulfilment in Peter -- The fulfilment of the promise consummated : the eschatological kingdom in Revelation. The new creation as Edenic paradise ; The new creation as temple ; The new creation as city (new Jerusalem) -- A concluding summary of the New Testament -- Theological reflections. Bound for the promised land ; some theological implications ; Conclusion.
Redemption
Homeland (Theology)
Israel (Christian theology)
Land tenure
Land tenure