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Munther Isaacs From Land to Lands, from Eden to the Renewed Earth represents a new and significant work in biblical theology. Isaac carefully explores the notion of land in Scripture against the backdrop of the biblical account of the Garden of Eden and then traces its use and significance in both the Old and New Testaments. Accordingly Isaac brings to light how land as gift, promise, condition, and covenant delineate the universal, territorial, and ethical dimensions of redemption and the reign of God. This work is not only a significant contribution to biblical scholarship, its contemporary relevance makes it a must buy for students of the Bible and theology alike.
Dr Thomas Harvey
Academic Dean, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies
This is an extraordinary book. It does not fall into the trap of playing Christian universality against Israels particularity in view of the Holy Land. It sees the unity of the Bible as a whole in regaining the universal scope of Gods particular covenant with Israel to establish justice on earth. This calls both Jews and Christians to overcome imperial conquering of land and oppression of its inhabitants in order to walk humbly with God, the giver and owner of land, to be a blessing for all peoples.
Dr Ulrich Duchrow
Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Heidelberg
A Christ-Centered Biblical Theology of the Promised Land
Munther Isaac
2015 by Munther Issac
Published 2015 by Langham Monographs
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To the memory of my father, who brought our family back to the land;
To my mother, who raised me up in the land;
To Rana, Mona, and Ghassan, who share with me the love of the land;
To my colleagues and students at Bethlehem Bible College, who serve with me in the land;
To the family of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, who were a family to me when I was away from the land;
To the Palestinian Church, the church of the land;
And mostly, to Rudaina, the love of my life, whose love and support carried and accompanied me throughout the writing of this book, and to Karam and Zaid, our precious gifts from the God of the land.
To God be the Glory
The theology of the land must start in the garden of Eden. Eden is a sanctuary, a covenanted land, and a royal garden. Eden is proto-land, and Adam is proto-Israel. Starting in Eden underlines the universal dimension of the land promise and its conditionality. It also elevates ethical behavior above the gift.
The theology of the land in the Old Testament (OT) reflects these Edenic themes: holiness, covenant, and kingdom. First, the holiness of the land depends on the presence of God in the land, and on the holiness of its dwellers; there is no permanent holy place in the OT. Second, the land is a gift under treaty; the goal of the gift is establishing an ideal covenantal community that witnesses to other nations in other lands. Third, the land is the sphere of Gods reign on earth through his vicegerent. The vicegerent brings justice and peace to the land. God remains the ultimate king in the land. The original promise to Israel is a promise of universal dominion.
After the exile, the prophets spoke of a time in which the land would become an ideal place. This ideal land is, effectively, Eden restored. The restoration of the land ultimately points forward to the restoration of the earth. The land in the OT underlines the social dimension to redemption. Yet, importantly, Israels faith can survive without the land.
The Jesus-event is the starting place for the theology of the land in the New Testament (NT). Jesus restored Israel and fulfilled the promises of the OT, including the land. He embodied the holy presence of God on earth, kept the covenant on behalf of Israel, and brought the reign of God on earth. He inherited the land, and in him Jews and Gentiles are its true heirs. This radical new fulfillment, brought about by the Jesus-event, dramatically changed the meaning of the land and nullified the old promises in their old articulation. The NT points forward to a time of consummation when the whole earth will become an ideal place or a redeemed land.
The land has thus been universalized in Christ. Universalization does not mean the spiritualization or heavenization. Instead, the theology of the land of Israel modified in the Jesus-event is a paradigm for Christian communities living in other lands. The theology of the land thus underlines the social and territorial dimensions of redemption. It also highlights the goodness of creation, and has many practical implications for the ongoing mission and practice of the church throughout the world.
Introduction
Land is a central, if not the central, theme of biblical faith.
The fate of the land is the focal point of biblical historiography.
The land is an important theme in the Bible. It is a theme through which the whole biblical history contained in both the Old and New Testaments can be studied and analyzed. When it comes to the Old Testament (OT), it is no exaggeration to say that the land is the central theme in the narrative of Israel. This study is a biblical theological study of the land. Biblical theology can be defined as:
A branch of theological inquiry devoted to identifying distinctive themes in various sections of the Bible... tracing them from one section to another, and discovering any overall unifying theme that draws the whole Bible together.
This study, simply put, will trace the theme of the land from one section of the Bible to another, and will attempt to discover any overall unifying themes in the theology of the land that draw the Bible together. The assumption that there are unifying themes in the Bible is essential to biblical theology. Biblical theology is concerned to describe the inner unity of the Bible on its own terms. Yet this does not mean that the Bible by design has only one major unifying theme, or that there is a theological uniformity that runs through every section of the Bible. The diversity of the theologies that are contained in the Bible is well acknowledged:
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