Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introducing election and nonelection : Christian interpretation
  • Jewish election theologies : exclusion and disgrace?
  • Blessing or curse? Abraham, election, and the nations : the story of Abimelech
  • An unchosen figure who saves a people (Exodus 2: 1-10)
  • Numbers : Balaam and YHWH's irrevocable love for Israel
  • Israel and the nations in Deuteronomy
  • Chosen and unchosen : can good come from a God who favors?
  • Appendix 1. The tendency to view Balaam as sinner
  • Appendix 2. Ḥerem in the Old Testament : an overview.