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The Pentateuch builds and establishes the foundational eschatology that looks toward the coming of a deliverer-King from Israel > Judah “in the last days” through its literary composition and content.

Below are a few topics we will discuss:

• The Torah (Pentateuch) as the foundation
• How can we know what a book so large means?
• What does it mean to read the Pentateuch as a book?
• Does the Pentateuch have a discernible structure?
• The narrative and poetic structure of the Pentateuch
• The structure of the Pentateuch and its eschatological outlook
• Genesis 1-3 and its formative role in the message of the Pentateuch
• Temple and rest (Gen. 1-2:4; 2:15)
• Mankind’s Vocation(s)
• Vocational failure and consequences for the world.
• Death as “Exile” and Resurrection as “Return”, as a controlling paradigm
• The promise to Abraham as God’s means to redeem ADAM “mankind”
• The meaning of the Mosaic Law in the context of the Pentateuch.
• Israel and the Nations “In the last days”, or “the Last Days” according to the Pentateuch