Publisher's Synopsis
"A significant and pervasive organizing theme throughout the Bible is the exile of the people of God and their hopeful return to the joy of God's presence. Adam and Eve are expelled from the Garden of Eden in Genesis 3. Humanity is welcomed back into the garden-temple-city of God's presence in Revelation 21. From start to finish, therefore, the Bible is one long exile and return metadrama. Specifically, it is not just a location from which humanity is exiled (though it is not less than that), but the place where God also dwells"--.
