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The New Covenant
            The new covenant is spoken of by the Old Testament prophets. Most notably, Jeremiah speaks of a new covenant in Jer. 31:31-34 that God will make with his people. Robertson points out that while Jeremiah alone explicitly mentions the new covenant, “the concept of the new covenant cannot be restricted to this […]

The Davidic Covenant
            This was a covenant made by God with David in which God promised to make a house for David and establish his kingdom forever (2 Samuel 7). Similar to the Abrahamic covenant, all three systems see it as an unconditional promise. Yet a covenant that has points of conditionality as well, although […]

The Mosaic covenant
The Mosaic covenant is that which God made with the nation of Israel at Sinai, and for that reason it is sometimes referred to as the Sinaitic covenant. The details are laid out in Exodus 20 – 31. All systems agree […]

The Abrahamic covenant
All three systematic theologies place great emphasis on this covenant. This is the great promise made to Abraham by God concerning the land, seed, and blessing and guaranteed it as God alone walked between the sacrificed animals parts (Gen. 12:1-3; Gen. […]

After our quick look at Old Testament theology, next we must briefly examine the systematic theologies before we delve into how they understand the covenants of the Old Testament. What follows here is a brief (very brief!) overview of the systematics that we will be examining.
The Systematic Theologies
It is appropriate, at this time, to give […]

The Proper Role of Old Testament Theology
The place of Old Testament theology is to aid the exegete in being that discipline which bridges the gap between one text and another. Understanding the historical sense, the grammatical sense, etc. is one piece of the puzzle; another piece is to understand how that text is itself informed […]

Well it has been a long semester for me. I had three intense classes, all of which kept me very busy. I wanted to start a short series here on the things I gained from my Old Testament theology class. For this class […]