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Plowshares and Pruning Hooks - Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic (Paperback)
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Plowshares and Pruning Hooks - Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic (Paperback)
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What are we to make of Isaiah's image of Mount Zion as the highest
of the mountains, or Zechariah's picture of the Mount of Olives
split in two, or Daniel's "beast rising out of the sea" or
Revelation's "great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns"?
How can Peter claim that on the day of Pentecost the prophecy of
Joel was being fulfilled, with signs in heaven and wonders on
earth, the sun turned to darkness and the moon to blood? The
language and imagery of biblical prophecy has been the source of
puzzlement for many Christians and a point of dispute for some. How
ironic that is For the prophets and seers were the wordsmiths of
their time. They took pains to speak God's word clearly and
effectively to their contemporaries. How should we, as citizens of
the twenty-first century, understand the imagery of this ancient
biblical literature? Are there any clues in the texts themselves,
any principles we can apply as we read these important but puzzling
biblical texts? D. Brent Sandy carefully considers the language and
imagery of prophecy and apocalyptic, how it is used, how it is
fulfilled within Scripture, and how we should read it against the
horizon of our future. Clearly and engagingly written, Plowshares
and Pruning Hooks is the kind of book that gives its readers a new
vantage point from which to view the landscape of prophetic and
apocalyptic language and imagery.
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