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What is a covenant? Asking for a definition of "covenant" is like asking for a definition of "mother." A mother may be defined as the person who brought you into the world. That definition may be correct formally. But who would be satisfied with such a definition? Scripture clearly testifies to the significance of the divine covenants. God has entered repeatedly into covenantal relationships with particular men. Explicit references may be found to a divine covenant established with Noah, Abraham, Israel, and David. Israel's prophets anticipated the coming of the days of the "new covenant," and Christ himself spoke of the last supper in covenantal language. But what is a covenant? Robertson leaves no stone unturned as he explains the Bible's covenants. As he explores each covenant in depth, he helps us to see their unity, diversity, and place in the history of redemption.… (more)
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I wish, however, that he had kept the more traditional
Robertson does great job of pulling together the particular passages that tie each covenant to the preceding and the following administrations. He goes far to prove the organic unity that exists between each, from the Adamic to the New Covenant (which is, not all that "new").
The absence of a structural exegesis is one weakness of his work. Robertson very briefly discusses the six-fold pattern of the ancient Near Eastern suzerainty treaties, but the discussion ends there. Later writers have improved upon this, and there are now many books which discuss the actual biblical structure of the covenant. It has been shown that even Revelation is structured along the same lines as the preceding covenant administrations (writers such as David Chilton and Ray Sutton are good sources).
All in all, a very good introduction to the subject.