Basic Forms of Prophetic Speech

Basic Forms of Prophetic Speech
Title Basic Forms of Prophetic Speech PDF eBook
Author Claus Westermann
Publisher Westminster John Knox Press
Pages 236
Release 1991-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780664252441

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The prophetic message awakens the people of God and calls them back from their perverse ways. But the history of the investigation of prophecy shows that the understanding of these messages has changed profoundly over time. Claus Westermann provides indications of the astonishing differences in the conceptions of prophecy in the history of its interpretation.

Prophetic Oracles of Salvation in the Old Testament

Prophetic Oracles of Salvation in the Old Testament
Title Prophetic Oracles of Salvation in the Old Testament PDF eBook
Author Claus Westermann
Publisher Westminster John Knox Press
Pages 288
Release 1991-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780664252397

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Prophetic Oracles of Salvation in the Old Testament is a comprehensive and innovative assessment of these often ignored or misunderstood canonical texts. Claus Westermann shows that these oracles occur in distinct forms and make up a coherent tradition. He goes on to demonstrate that these texts, often percieved only as a message of judgement and doom, in fact proclaim hope and deliverance as well.

Prophetic Preaching

Prophetic Preaching
Title Prophetic Preaching PDF eBook
Author Leonora Tubbs Tisdale
Publisher Westminster John Knox Press
Pages 154
Release 2010-08-09
Genre Religion
ISBN 1611640970

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Where have all the prophets gone? And why do preachers seem to shy away from prophetic witness? Astute preacher Leonora Tisdale considers these vexing questions while providing guidance and encouragement to pastors who want to recommit themselves to the task of prophetic witness. With a keen sensitivity to pastoral contexts, Tisdale's work is full of helpful suggestions and examples to help pastors structure and preach prophetic sermons, considered by many to be one of the most difficult tasks pastors are called to undertake.

Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters

Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters
Title Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters PDF eBook
Author Donald K. McKim
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Pages 1133
Release 2007-11-12
Genre Religion
ISBN 083082927X

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Featuring more than two hundred in-depth articles, a comprehensive resource introduces the principal players in the history of biblical interpretation and explores their historical and intellectual contexts, their primary works, their interpretive principles, and their broader historical significance.

Jeremiah Under the Shadow of Duhm

Jeremiah Under the Shadow of Duhm
Title Jeremiah Under the Shadow of Duhm PDF eBook
Author Joseph M. Henderson
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 397
Release 2019-11-14
Genre Religion
ISBN 0567676447

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Joe Henderson offers a critique of the assumption that poetic form in the book of Jeremiah indicates authenticity. This assumption undergirds Bernhard Duhm's reconstructions (1901) of the prophet's biography and the book's composition, the basic components of the dominant paradigm for twentieth-century Jeremiah scholarship. Henderson argues that Duhm's model is best understood as an attempt to bring the book into conformity with nineteenth-century systems of aesthetics, historiography, and theology-and with the Grafian reconstruction of the history of Israel's religion. The accord between these systems and Duhm's assumption about poetic form has less to do with their common grasp of the historical reality of Hebrew prophecy than with their common roots in the Romantic theory of prophetic and poetic inspiration-a theory forged by Robert Lowth in his exposition (1752) of the poetry he found in the prophetic books. Henderson contends that continued adherence to Duhm's foundational assumption has held back recent attempts to “move beyond Duhm” and overcome the fragmentation of the book entailed by his model. Rhetorical critics, who maintain that Jeremiah 2–10 is unified by the structural devices of the historical prophet, and redaction critics, who maintain that Jeremiah 11–20 is unified by the theological agenda of Deuteronomistic editors, both rely on the assumed authenticity of the poetry. Henderson observes that although these scholars have uncovered evidence of dramatic presentation in Jeremiah 2–20, they have failed to see that the dramatic nature of these chapters undermines their use for Duhm's historical-critical projects and reveals what actually unifies them-narrative progression.

Handbook of Biblical Criticism

Handbook of Biblical Criticism
Title Handbook of Biblical Criticism PDF eBook
Author Richard N. Soulen
Publisher Westminster John Knox Press
Pages 254
Release 2001-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780664223144

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Integrating the newest methods and theories of biblical studies, this third edition contains over 800 terms, phrases, names, explanations of common abbreviations, notes on major methodologies and exegetical basics, biographical sketches of key figures in the history of research, analytical outlines of fundamental critical problems, a list of bibliographic tools, plus an invaluable "Diagram of Biblical Interpretation."

Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World

Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World
Title Prophecy in Early Christianity and the Ancient Mediterranean World PDF eBook
Author David E. Aune
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 535
Release 2003-08-12
Genre Religion
ISBN 1592443028

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Aune's comprehensive study of early Christian prophecy includes a review of its antecedents (Greco-Roman oracles, ancient Israelite prophecy, prophecy in early Judaism), a discussion of Jesus as prophet, and analyses of Christian prophetic speeches from Paul to the middle of the second century A.D. The most detailed study of early Christian prophecy written, Aune's book places the phenomenon of early Christian prophecy within the larger Greco-Roman world.