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Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention Preaching's Preacher's
Guide to the Best Bible Reference From John H. Walton, author of
the bestselling Lost World of Genesis One, and D. Brent Sandy,
author of Plowshares and Pruning Hooks, comes a detailed look at
the origins of scriptural authority in ancient oral cultures and
how they inform our understanding of the Old and New Testaments
today. Stemming from questions about scriptural inerrancy,
inspiration and oral transmission of ideas, The Lost World of
Scripture examines the process by which the Bible has come to be
what it is today. From the reasons why specific words were used to
convey certain ideas to how oral tradition impacted the
transmission of biblical texts, the authors seek to uncover how
these issues might affect our current doctrine on the authority of
Scripture. "In this book we are exploring ways God chose to reveal
his word in light of discoveries about ancient literary culture,"
write Walton and Sandy. "Our specific objective is to understand
better how both the Old and New Testaments were spoken, written and
passed on, especially with an eye to possible implications for the
Bible?s inspiration and authority." The books in the Lost World
Series follow the pattern set by Bible scholar John H. Walton,
bringing a fresh, close reading of the Hebrew text and knowledge of
ancient Near Eastern literature to an accessible discussion of the
biblical topic at hand using a series of logic-based propositions.
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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