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Covenant Map

Where a passage sits in the larger story

Each tradition tells covenantal history differently. The map keeps the readings side by side, sharing the covenants they share, and attributes every relationship to the readings it belongs to.

Jewish reading

  1. Creation → Noah · shared covenant
    preserves: The Noahic covenant preserves the created order and establishes a universal sign.
  2. Noah → Noahide commandments
    binds the nations: Rabbinic tradition reads the covenant with Noah as binding all humanity to seven commandments.
  3. Noah → Abraham · shared covenant
    narrows through promise: The universal human horizon narrows to a promised family through whom the nations will be blessed.
  4. Abraham → Sinai / Moses · shared covenant
    administers: The descendants of Abraham are constituted as a covenant people with law, priesthood, sacrifice and land obligations.
  5. Sinai / Moses → David · shared covenant
    royalizes: The Davidic covenant locates enduring royal promise within Israel’s covenantal history.
  6. Sinai / Moses → Prophetic promise · shared covenant
    anticipates renewal: The prophets anticipate covenant renewal, internalized instruction and restored relationship.
  7. Prophetic promise → Messianic restoration
    anticipates restoration: The prophets promise Israel’s restoration under a Davidic king, with Israel’s standing before God as fixed as the order of creation.

Christian reading

  1. Creation → Noah · shared covenant
    preserves: The Noahic covenant preserves the created order and establishes a universal sign.
  2. Noah → Abraham · shared covenant
    narrows through promise: The universal human horizon narrows to a promised family through whom the nations will be blessed.
  3. Abraham → Sinai / Moses · shared covenant
    administers: The descendants of Abraham are constituted as a covenant people with law, priesthood, sacrifice and land obligations.
  4. Sinai / Moses → David · shared covenant
    royalizes: The Davidic covenant locates enduring royal promise within Israel’s covenantal history.
  5. Sinai / Moses → Prophetic promise · shared covenant
    anticipates renewal: The prophets anticipate covenant renewal, internalized instruction and restored relationship.
  6. Prophetic promise → New Covenant · shared covenant
    claims fulfillment: New Testament texts identify the death and priestly ministry of Jesus with the promised new covenant.
  7. New Covenant → Kingdom / Consummation · shared covenant
    extends toward consummation: The covenantal sequence is presented as moving toward final kingdom, renewal and divine presence.

Islamic reading

  1. Primordial covenant → Covenant of the prophets
    is followed by: The Qurʾān speaks of a covenant drawn from all the children of Adam, who acknowledge God as their Lord, and of a covenant taken from the prophets.
  2. Covenant of the prophets → Abraham · shared covenant
    includes: The covenant of the prophets names Ibrāhīm with Nūḥ, Mūsā and ʿĪsā; God’s covenant with Ibrāhīm does not extend to wrongdoers among his descendants.
  3. Covenant of the prophets → Seal of the prophets
    anticipates a confirming messenger: The prophets pledge to believe in and support a messenger who comes confirming what they have; Muslim exegesis identifies him with Muhammad, the seal of the prophets.
  4. Abraham → Sinai / Moses · shared covenant
    continues with the Children of Israel: God takes a covenant from the Children of Israel and appoints twelve leaders among them.

Latter-day Saint reading

  1. Creation → Noah · shared covenant
    preserves: The Noahic covenant preserves the created order and establishes a universal sign.
  2. Noah → Abraham · shared covenant
    narrows through promise: The universal human horizon narrows to a promised family through whom the nations will be blessed.
  3. Abraham → Sinai / Moses · shared covenant
    administers: The descendants of Abraham are constituted as a covenant people with law, priesthood, sacrifice and land obligations.
  4. Abraham → Restoration
    renews: Latter-day Saint scripture records the restoration of “the dispensation of the gospel of Abraham” and promises that all who receive the gospel are counted as his seed.
  5. Sinai / Moses → David · shared covenant
    royalizes: The Davidic covenant locates enduring royal promise within Israel’s covenantal history.
  6. Sinai / Moses → Prophetic promise · shared covenant
    anticipates renewal: The prophets anticipate covenant renewal, internalized instruction and restored relationship.
  7. Prophetic promise → New Covenant · shared covenant
    claims fulfillment: New Testament texts identify the death and priestly ministry of Jesus with the promised new covenant.
  8. New Covenant → Restoration
    claims restoration of: Latter-day Saint scripture speaks of the “new and everlasting covenant” as restored in the last days.
  9. New Covenant → Kingdom / Consummation · shared covenant
    extends toward consummation: The covenantal sequence is presented as moving toward final kingdom, renewal and divine presence.

15 recorded

Relationships

AM-COV-0001HighJewish, Christian, Latter-day SaintProvisional

Creation → Noah · preserves

The Noahic covenant preserves the created order and establishes a universal sign.

Evidence: Genesis 8:20-22; Genesis 9:1-17

No grounding claim recorded yet.

AM-COV-0002HighJewish, Christian, Latter-day SaintProvisional

Noah → Abraham · narrows through promise

The universal human horizon narrows to a promised family through whom the nations will be blessed.

Evidence: Genesis 12:1-3; Genesis 15:1-21; Genesis 17:1-14

Grounded by AM-CLAIM-000187

AM-COV-0003HighJewish, Christian, Latter-day SaintProvisional

Abraham → Sinai / Moses · administers

The descendants of Abraham are constituted as a covenant people with law, priesthood, sacrifice and land obligations.

Evidence: Exodus 19:3-8; Exodus 24:3-8

Grounded by AM-CLAIM-000187, AM-CLAIM-000188

AM-COV-0004HighJewish, Christian, Latter-day SaintProvisional

Sinai / Moses → David · royalizes

The Davidic covenant locates enduring royal promise within Israel’s covenantal history.

Evidence: 2 Samuel 7:8-16; Psalm 89:3-4

No grounding claim recorded yet.

AM-COV-0005HighJewish, Christian, Latter-day SaintProvisional

Sinai / Moses → Prophetic promise · anticipates renewal

The prophets anticipate covenant renewal, internalized instruction and restored relationship.

Evidence: Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:24-28

Grounded by AM-CLAIM-000185

AM-COV-0006HighChristian, Latter-day SaintProvisional

Prophetic promise → New Covenant · claims fulfillment

New Testament texts identify the death and priestly ministry of Jesus with the promised new covenant.

Evidence: Luke 22:20; Hebrews 8:6-13; Hebrews 9:15

Grounded by AM-CLAIM-000185, AM-CLAIM-000192 · illustrated by AM-CLAIM-000191

AM-COV-0007InterpretiveChristian, Latter-day SaintProvisional

New Covenant → Kingdom / Consummation · extends toward consummation

The covenantal sequence is presented as moving toward final kingdom, renewal and divine presence.

Evidence: 1 Corinthians 15:24-28; Revelation 21:1-5

No grounding claim recorded yet.

AM-COV-0008HighJewishProvisional

Prophetic promise → Messianic restoration · anticipates restoration

The prophets promise Israel’s restoration under a Davidic king, with Israel’s standing before God as fixed as the order of creation.

Evidence: Jeremiah 31:35–37; Ezekiel 37:24–28; Jeremiah 33:17–18

Grounded by AM-CLAIM-000195 · illustrated by AM-CLAIM-000197

AM-COV-0009InterpretiveJewishProvisional

Noah → Noahide commandments · binds the nations

Rabbinic tradition reads the covenant with Noah as binding all humanity to seven commandments.

Evidence: Genesis 9:1–7; b. Sanhedrin 56a

No grounding claim recorded yet.

AM-COV-0010InterpretiveIslamicProvisional

Primordial covenant → Covenant of the prophets · is followed by

The Qurʾān speaks of a covenant drawn from all the children of Adam, who acknowledge God as their Lord, and of a covenant taken from the prophets.

Evidence: Q 7:172; Q 33:7

No grounding claim recorded yet.

AM-COV-0011HighIslamicProvisional

Covenant of the prophets → Abraham · includes

The covenant of the prophets names Ibrāhīm with Nūḥ, Mūsā and ʿĪsā; God’s covenant with Ibrāhīm does not extend to wrongdoers among his descendants.

Evidence: Q 33:7; Q 2:124

Grounded by AM-CLAIM-000234

AM-COV-0012HighIslamicProvisional

Abraham → Sinai / Moses · continues with the Children of Israel

God takes a covenant from the Children of Israel and appoints twelve leaders among them.

Evidence: Q 2:83; Q 5:12

No grounding claim recorded yet.

AM-COV-0013InterpretiveIslamicProvisional

Covenant of the prophets → Seal of the prophets · anticipates a confirming messenger

The prophets pledge to believe in and support a messenger who comes confirming what they have; Muslim exegesis identifies him with Muhammad, the seal of the prophets.

Evidence: Q 3:81; Q 33:40

No grounding claim recorded yet. · illustrated by AM-CLAIM-000249

AM-COV-0014InterpretiveLatter-day SaintProvisional

New Covenant → Restoration · claims restoration of

Latter-day Saint scripture speaks of the “new and everlasting covenant” as restored in the last days.

Evidence: D&C 1:22; D&C 22:1; D&C 66:2

No grounding claim recorded yet. · illustrated by AM-CLAIM-000270

AM-COV-0015HighLatter-day SaintProvisional

Abraham → Restoration · renews

Latter-day Saint scripture records the restoration of “the dispensation of the gospel of Abraham” and promises that all who receive the gospel are counted as his seed.

Evidence: D&C 110:12; Abraham 2:9–11

Grounded by AM-CLAIM-000267

The map does not force contested theology into one storyline: where readings diverge, each is shown and attributed. JSON