Sublime

The date of these documents, called J, E, D, and P, has been the subject of much debate in recent biblical scholarship. The oldest document is most likely J, which was given this name since in Genesis it typically uses the four-letter name of God, YHWH (rT1r'…

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the story of the way in which the creator God was going to deal with the problem of evil. Genesis 12 was always designed as the answer to Genesis 3–11. How was this to be done? Not by making Israel a “safe place,” a community in which the evil of the world could find no place.

What, then, about Jesus’ response to the corn-plucking charge? The little story about David and his men eating the holy bread76 is not simply (as Sanders implies) designed to provide a legal parallel in an essentially legal case. It is hardly surprising that the story does not work too well when read in this fashion. It is designed to provide a kin

The context and content of Daniel 9 thus point to a complex grid of meaning for Mark 13 and its parallels: YHWH’s final faithfulness to the covenant, and his rescue of his faithful ones, is to come about paradoxically through the destruction of the rebuilt city, and also through the cutting off of an abandoned ‘anointed one’. These, I suggest, are

“The risen Lord is not the historical Jesus behind the Gospels, but the Christ of the apostolic preaching, of the whole New Testament” (65).

This is not simply a problem for Israel; it is not simply a problem for the world (though it is of course both of those as well). It is a problem for God, as Romans 3:1-8 makes clear. God's single saving plan has apparently been thwarted. How is he then going to be faithful not only to the promises made to Israel but to the promises made through Is