The Charge of God’s Royal Children

“I am delighted to provide a strong recommendation for Timothy Howe’s book on the imago Dei in Genesis 1–11. He has provided fresh and illuminating insights into a text about which so much has been written. Howe’s book is clearly written and demonstrates scholarly rigor. He has succeeded in his aim of demonstrating that the imago Dei plays an important role in the interpretation of Genesis 1–11.”


—Peter Harland, faculty of divinity, University of Cambridge





“Timothy Howe’s The Charge of God’s Royal Children is a helpful, erudite contribution to our understanding of the imago Dei. Howe employs an effective and insightful use of literary analysis to enhance exegesis and to inform a more rich and full theological understanding of the imago Dei and the role that this concept plays in Genesis 1–11. I heartily recommend it to theologians, biblical scholars, professors, and pastors.”


—J. Daniel Hays, senior professor of Old Testament, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary