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Dr. Makram Mesherky is a Christian Arab poet, lecturer and prolific author. He specializes in Bible background, comparative religion, and both Jewish and Muslim literature. He has written many books and articles in these fields of study, both academic and semi-academic in Arabic, Hebrew, and English. He is also a lay minister and presenter on various special television programs.
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Israel's election, calling and history make up a big part of scripture. It could be said that they belong to the "DNA of the Bible." But why is it then that the Christian narrative about the Messiah, Israel and the nations, often seemed to have and sometimes even still las a different “genetic structure”? Does Israel - together with its election and promises – leave God’s stage through a side door, when Jesus appears on stage? Does a changing of roles take place, within a different story? Does the Messiah function within it as some kind of “black hole” in which the eternal election and calling of Israel disappear? How do we read God’s way?
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One of the chief purposes of the commentary is to set forth the reason that led the Committee, or a majority of the members of the Committee, to adopt certain variant readings for inclusion in the text and to relegate certain others readings to the apparatus. On the basis of a record of the voting of the Committee, as well as, for most sessions, more or less full notes of the discussions that proceeded the voting, the present writer has sought to frame and express concisely (a) the main problem or the problem involved in each set of variants and (b) the Committees 's evaluation and resolution of those problems.