Blood Covenant

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Summary: A standard reader for all serious Bible students.
Review: As another wrote, this is not a simple reader. The main reason for this is because the book is over 100 years old and the English is more proper; however, do not let this deter you. This book by Trumbull has long been the standard for concise exploration into the field of covenant-making. Virtually all other books written on this subject have their observations taken from this one. Study this topic long enough and you'll see the commonality. Trumbull's knowledge of Scripture, his first hand experiences, and his communications with other renown researchers have lended themselves to this masterpiece. This man truly lived as he wrote. I would therefore also highly recommend his books The Threshold Covenant and the Covenant of Salt for further study, both recently in publication after many years. He has many others, and if you can find them, they are a treat indeed. So study and do well.

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Summary: A classic text in blood covenants
Review: In researching the literature on blood covenants, the subject of my Master's thesis, I was struck by the dearth of scholarly research on this subject. Most books on this subject were rather shallow, with no real depth to them and little in the way of scholarly input. Dr. Trumbull's classic on the subject of the blood covenants was like a breath of fresh spring air in a very stiffling room. Here was the in-depth scholarship so lacking in the other works reviewed. It seems that no one, in the last hundred years or so has been able to out-perform this classic treatment of the blood covenant. It is not easy reading, but is full of the best scholarship I have found anywhere on this subject.

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Summary: The most definitive book on the Blood Covenant available.
Review: This book is based on a three lecture series that Dr. Trumbull delivered on June 16-18 in 1885 to the Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia, PA. That no other book in the past 117 years, on the subject of the Blood Covenant, has equalled or surpassed this book in thoroughness or in scholarship is mute testimony to this book's classic position as THE definitive book on the subject of the Blood Covenant. Dr Trumbull traces the origins of the Blood Covenant, as practiced worldwide, to an early Oriental home in ancient human history (p 57). Along the way, he has shown the development of this covenant from a crude form of uniting two humans or a human and a Divine entity in an unbreakabke bond to a highly stylized rite among the peoples of the world. This book is a must for every Pastor or teacher who wishes to understand the very Covenant that is the underpining of the Christian faith.