Series Preface
Acknowledgements
introduction

Chapter 1: Blessings and Curses, Life and Death

Chapter 2: The Blessing of the World through Abraham's Family

Chapter 3 Covenantal Blessings for God's People

Chapter 4 All the spiritual blessings

Chapter 5 Eternal Blessings

References

The SSBT series helps readers understand the entire Bible as a unified story fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
Each book, written by trusted Bible scholars, traces a key theme that runs through God's Word from Genesis to Revelation and explores its significance for the Christian life.

[Series Preface]

As we begin our Christian lives, we tend to treat the Bible as a book that is "big, deep, and enormous" and impossible to get through.
We read the text in fragments, discovering nuggets of inspiration here and there, but we remain stuck without being able to put the given text into the overall story.
But one of the most remarkable developments in evangelical biblical studies over the past few generations has been the revival of biblical theology.
Biblical theology is a new understanding of the Bible as a theologically unified, historically grounded, progressively unfolding book, ultimately a Christ-centered story of God's covenantal work to redeem sinful humanity in the world in which we live.

While this renaissance in biblical theology is a blessing, it remains largely unknown to the average Christian. The goal of the SSBT (Short Studies in Biblical Theology) series is to connect the scholarly discussion of biblical theology with the general public.
The authors of this series are scholars and pastors who are qualified to write in a way that readers can fully understand without requiring theological training.
So, any thoughtful Christian disciple can benefit from these books.

Each book in this series takes a theme from the entire Bible and traces that theme throughout the Bible.
In this way, readers not only learn about a given topic, but also learn how to read the entire Bible as a coherent book.

Why do we publish this series? Because we love the Bible, we love the church, and we long for the revival of biblical theology in the academic world to breathe life into the hearts of Christian disciples around the world.
Our editors have found nothing more exciting in life than understanding the entire Bible as a unified story of God's gracious redemptive acts, and as Jesus himself testified, ultimately as a book about Jesus (Luke 24:27; John 5:39).

The ultimate goal of the SSBT series is to examine our Savior closely and build His church.
In other words, our goal is to examine this Savior in detail by showing how the entire Bible points to Jesus and how He graciously rescues helpless sinners, and to build up the church by strengthening believers' ability to understand life-giving truth.
- Dane Ortlund and Miles Van Pelt