How God Forms Abraham to Be a Blessing

Viac o knihe

The book explores God's interactions with Abraham, focusing on the command to "be a blessing" and its implications for all families on earth. It employs a formative narrative approach to analyze thirteen narratives from Genesis, identifying four types of interactions that reflect cooperation and conflict between God and Abraham. This analysis uncovers three pivotal turning points in Abraham's journey from deviation to cooperation, contributing to a deeper understanding of plot formation and cause-and-effect structures in Old Testament narratives.