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DEDICATION

For Leo

Look! The Lion has won the victory!

(Revelation 5.5)

CONTENTS

Dedication

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

1. A Vitally Important Scandal

Why the Cross?

2. Wrestling with the Cross, Then and Now

3. The Cross in Its First-Century Setting

PART TWO: “IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BIBLE”: THE STORIES OF

ISRAEL

The Covenant of Vocation

“In All the Scriptures”

The Divine Presence and the Forgiveness of Sins

Suffering, Redemption, and Love

PART THREE: THE REVOLUTIONARY RESCUE

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New Goal, New Humanity

Jesus’s Special Passover

The Story of the Rescue

Paul and the Cross

Apart from Romans

The Death of Jesus in Paul’s Letter to the Romans

The New Exodus

The Death of Jesus in Paul’s Letter to the Romans

Passover and Atonement