“All the Families of the Earth”: The Theological Unity of Genesis

Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology 45 (4):341-353 (1991)
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The central theological focus that unites the Book of Genesis is the promise that God first makes to Abraham and then repeats in various forms to Isaac, to Jacob, and, through Jacob, to Joseph “In you shall all the families of the earth be blessed”

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