It is widely assumed that the New Testament represents a change of direction: that God had intended to save only the Israelites and then widened the plan. Walter C. Kaiser Jr. questions that notion directly.

He argues that, contrary to popular opinion, the older Testament does not reinforce an exclusive redemptive plan at all. Instead it emphasizes a common human condition and God's original and continuing concern for all humanity, and Kaiser works through the texts to show it. Short, and a corrective that bears on how a church reads the whole Old Testament.