By Hemchand Gossai
Hemchand Gossai not just explores some of the issues inside numerous texts, yet keeps a relentless eye at the implications for the church and modern readers. during this regard, a few of the literal and specific studies corresponding to barrenness, desolate tract, and wrestling with God are tested as metaphors for our reviews. The richness and texture of metaphors let us include those tales in a manner that makes them our tales.
"Hemchand Gossai has lengthy been engaged on the tales of Abraham and Sarah with nice readability, literary sensitivity, and theological savvy. In this quantity, he expands upon that trip with new studies regarding God, the human characters, and their interrelationships. Gathering the main topics from those narratives, Gossai offers them in this kind of way that Israel's tales can speak once more into the complexities of our interreligious world. Students and students alike will take advantage of his many insights."
--Terence E. Fretheim, Elva B. Lovell Professor of outdated testomony, Luther Theological Seminary; writer of Abraham: Trials of relations and Faith
Hemchand Gossai is Director of non secular reports at Georgia Southern college. he's additionally the writer of Social Critique by way of Israel's Eighth-Century Prophets and River Crossings: stories of a Journey--A Memoir.
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