After God's Own Heart: The Gospel According to David (The Gospel According to the Old Testament)
by Mark J. Boda
The Gospel According to the Old Testament
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With lucid insights on every page, After God's Own Heart examines the life of David, showing how the Old Testament king relates to anointing, covenant, the temple, and sin. But ultimately, the author shows how David pictures the Messiah to come. This volume in the Gospel According to the Old Testament series includes questions for individual or group study. Book jacket.Tags
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Mark J. Boda (PhD, University of Cambridge) is professor of Old Testament at McMaster Divinity College. He is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including the Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets (coedited with Gordon McConville) and commentaries on Haggai, Zechariah, 1-2 Chronicles, and Judges.
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Common Knowledge
- Epigraph
- The New Testament is in the Old concealed;
the Ol Testament is in the New revealed.
--Augustine - Dedication
- ad majorem Dei gloriam
Dedicated to David Christian on the occasion of
his twentieth birthday - First words
- [Foreword] Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in... (show all) them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
[Tribute to J. Alan Groves] After the death of Ray Dillard in 1993, Al Groves and I saw to the publication of our beloved fried, mentor, and colleague's book, Faith in the Face of Apostasy, and in doing so launched a ... (show all)new series.
[Preface] It was surprisingly in a course on missiology that I first fell in love with biblical theology.
He stood out among the masses crowded near the Dung Gate at the south end of the Old City of Jerusalem, long blond hair and deep blue eyes, dressed in a long flowing white gown with a crown on his head and a harp in his arms. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Foreword] It is our hope and prayer that this series will revive interest in and study of the Old Testament as readers recognize that the Old Testament points forward to Jesus Christ.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Preface] Ego ex corum numero me esse profiteer qui scribunt proficiendo, & scribendo proficient.
Augustine, Letters 153.2,
via Ioannes Calvinus
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)As the messianic community longing for the return of Messiah Jesus, the son of David, challenged to live as Christ-ones, reflecting the values we have discovered throughout this book.
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- Genres
- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 222.4092 — Religion The Bible Historical books of Old Testament Samuel David, King of Israel--Biblical leader
- LCC
- BS580 .D3 .B57 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion The Bible The Bible Works about the Bible Men, women, and children of the Bible Individual Old Testament characters
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