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The Bible and the "Universal" Ancient World: A Critique of John Wal NOEL K. WEEKS
Correlations with Providence in Genesis 2
VERN S. POYTHRESS David in Ezra-Nehemiah DEAN R. ULRICH
Cosmic Bully or God of Grace? The Book of Job as Masal DAVID R. JACKSON
The Presence of Genesis in Ecclesiastes MATTHEW SEUFERT
Descendit: Delete Or Declare? A Defense Against The Neo-Deletionists JEFFERY L. HAMM.. Where Person Meets Word: Part 2, The Convergence of Personalism and Scripture in the Language Theory of Kenneth L. Pike
"Gifts" and Ministries in the Apostolic Fathers KENNETH BERDING (continued on inside back cover)
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Dealing with the Genre of Genesis and Its Opening Chapters VERN S. POYTHRESS
HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES
Samuel Rutherford and the Protection of Religious Freedom in Early Seventeenth-Century Scotland
SHAUN DE FRETTAS AND ANDRIES RAATH The Difference Between Scotus and Turretin in Their Formulation of the Doctrine of Freedom B. HOON WOO
Jonathan Edwards's View of That Great Act of Obedience:
Jesus Laying Down His Life RYAN M. HURD
Teach All Nations: The Use of the Heidelberg Catechism in North America and Throughout the Non-European World JOEL R. BEEKE AND ERIC D. BRISTLEY
Closing the Gaps Perichoresis and the Nature of Language PIERCE TAYLOR HIBBS (continued on side back cover)
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Political and Theological Responses RYAN J. ROSS

John Calvin and the Earl French Reformation: to Persecution, 1533-1562 Francis Turretin on Human Free Choice: Walking the Fine Line Between Sinchronic Contingency and Compatibilistic Determinism
HYUNKWAN KIM
Created to Know: A Comparison of the Epistemologies of Michael Polama and Francis Schaeffer ADAM LLOYD JOHNSON
Do You See How I See? The Trinitarian Roots of Human Perception PIERCE TAYLOR HIBBS BIBLICAL STUDIES
The Cardionomographic Work of the Spirit in the Old Testament STEVEN R. CONHEAD
Genesis 1:1 Is the First Event, Not a Summary VERN S. POYTHRESS
Messianic Expectation in Isaiah 11 GREG GOSWELL
Ashurbanipal's Peace and the Date of Nahum GREGORY D. COOK

The Law Evidently Is Not Contrary to Faith" Galatians and the Republication of the Covenant of Works BES C DUNSON
HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL STUDIES
The Antinomianisme" of the "Red Dragon"
John Goodwin's Flight from the Moral Law
DAVID PARNHAM Anthony Tuckney (1599-1670) on Union with Christ
Becoming John Owen. The Making of an Evangelical Reputation CRAWFORD GRIBBEN
Benjamin B Warfield and True Church Unity JEFFREY A. STIVASON
World through Word: Towards a Linguistic Ontology
Review of Karl Barth and the Incarnation, by Darren O. Sumner JAMES J. CASSIDY

John Owen and the Immediacy of Christ's Authority over Christian Worship ANDREW M. LESLIE Peace, Child: You Don't Understand:
Theodicy in the Writings of C. S. Lewis EAMON MCGRAW In the Beginning Was the Word:
John 1:1-5 and a Revelational Theory of Metaphor PIERCE TAYLOR HIBBS BIBLICAL STUDIES
The "Sons of God" in Genesis 6:1-4: A Rhetorical Characterization THOMAS A. KEISER
What Does It Mean to Fall Short of the Glory of God? Romans 3:23 in Biblical-Theological Perspective DANE C. ORTLUND
Galatians 3:13-14: Mere Assertion? DEBBIE HUNN
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Westminster Theological Seminary by Vern Poythress, Editor: K. Scout Oliphint, Co
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Cornelius P. Venema, Christ and Covenant Theology. Essays on Election,
Republication, and the Covenants JEONG KOO JEON Fred Sanders, The Triune God
R. CARLTON WYNNE Eric Brian Watkins, The Drama of Preaching: Participating with God in the History of Redemption KEVIN D. KOSLOWSKY.