REL 1004 : 1004 First Test Irvin
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First test answers the fixed list of books in the bible: d, b, a, d, a, e, c. Also, the man"s vocation is to till the soil. Genesis 22 narrates a divine call for a departure that appears to lead to the cancellation of the blessing of the patriarch. Each divine call begins with the distinctive expression, go for yourself (lek leka). : god frequently promises many descendants and the land, but repeatedly the fulfillment of the promise is delayed or threatened. Thus the true intentions of god seem obscure: the end of the poem supposedly alludes to jahweh"s temple in jerusalem, which solomon built ca. 2 kings reports the cultic reforms that josiah made on the basis of the discovered law book, and those cultic reforms match the cultic prescriptions in the book of deuteronomy. 2 kings indicates that the discovered law book contained divine threats.
