Promised Land or Lands of Promise?: Understanding Israel Today in the Light of Christ

This book develops a biblical theology of the Land, based on the author’s ground-breaking PhD thesis. The whole biblical history in the Old and New Testaments can be studied and analysed through the theme of ‘the land’. From its beginnings in the Garden of Eden to the renewal of creation, this book approaches the theme from three distinct perspectives – holiness, the covenant, and the kingdom. The author’s careful analysis reveals how the promise of the land, as anticipated in the Old Testa...