Historical Roots of the Gospel: the Promise behind the Promise

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Paul Williamson

Abstract

The first verse in the New Testament presents us with a major theological conundrum - at least, if we accept views currently being expressed on the history of Israel or the historicity of the Old Testament. Some at the cutting edge of the discipline maintain that both David and Abraham are imaginary heroes; fictional characters invented in the Persian or Hellenistic era and retrojected unto a mythic past as political propaganda. Hence our conundrum: how can the good news be theologically true if one of its foundational truths is historically suspect? In other words, how can we believe the Gospel if the New Testament gets it wrong from the outset?

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Williamson, Paul. “Historical Roots of the Gospel: The Promise Behind the Promise”. Reformed Theological Review 70, no. 2 (August 31, 2011). Accessed March 29, 2024. https://rtrjournal.org/index.php/RTR/article/view/13.