Prophetic Self-Negation: Validating the Divine Origin of the Word

Biblical Interpretation, 2018

After an appreciation of Macintosh, the volume presents twenty-three essays in five parts: the language and literature of the Pentateuch, historical books, prophets, writings, and the themes and resonances of biblical language and literature (namely, in biblical and rabbinic literature). Although the content could easily have become too disparate, the high representation of Genesis, Hosea, and Psalms, and the theological leanings of many of the chapters give the volume some coherence. Part 3, on the prophets, is especially enjoyable, with contributions ranging from the late Edward Ball's fascinating literary and linguistic study of Nahum 2.2 to Diana Lipton's refreshing reading of Jeremiah through the lens of Shakespeare's Cymbeline. Although the volume is understandably skewed towards British scholarship, the wide range of texts represented and the prestige of the authors demonstrate the lasting reach of Macintosh's contribution to the field. This variety of interests represented in the volume, combined with the background knowledge required to fully appreciate its contents, mean this book is best suited to Hebrew Bible scholars and interested graduate students.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2012

bearing on how one reads it. In "The ?salms as Corpus‫״‬ (ch. 6), Brown tips his hat to the plethora of reeent work on the subjeet and then gives his own fresh reading of the ?salms as a book that takes Psalms 1 and 2 as a point of departure. The final ehapter ("The Psalms as Theologieal Anthropology") is a theological foray into what the Psalms say about God and humankind and draws from observations in previous chapters. This is an excellent introduction to the Psalms. Brown combines literary insight with theological sensitivity to illuminate the Psalms for those who read them as a resource for devotion, theology, and worship. Brown's own characterization of the book as "invitational" is appropriate. With an accessible style, judicious handling of issues, and sensitivity to literary features, Brown masterfully draws readers into and reveals the riches ofthe Psalms. JEROME ?٠ D. CREACH ?ITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ?ITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA Copyright and Use: As an ATLAS user, you may priut, dow nload, or send artieles for individual use according to fair use as defined by U.S. and international eopyright law and as otherwise authorized under your respective ATT,AS subscriber agreement. No eontent may be copied or emailed to multiple sites or publicly posted without the copyright holder(s)' express written permission. Any use, decompiling, reproduction, or distribution of this journal in excess of fair use provisions may be a violation of copyright law.

This paper broadly examines the concept of prophecy in the Hebrew Bible and proposes the theory that there existed an unspoken prophetic tradition in ANE culture which must be understood in the context of the phrase "the word of the Lord came to ...". The study gives historical linguistic and cultural context to this prophetic template phrase and offers insight for understanding the prophetic tradition in the Hebrew Bible, suggesting that such a tradition certainly existed and must be taken into account when forming ideas about prophetic methodology and concerning prophetic reception phenomena.

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This review is perhaps somewhat longer than usual, but this is on account of the rarity of publications on the topic of O T ethics. Also, I would state that although in the foregoing paragraphs I have raised some basic issues relating to Kaiser's volume, his work is a serious attempt to come to grips with O T ethics in a refreshing way. The cheap law/gospel and simplistic OT/NT or old-covenant/new-covenant dichotomies are avoided, and the Bible is set forth so as to be seen as a whole, without denying the varieties of emphasis it contains. The indexes of texts, names, subjects, and Hebrew words enhance the usefulness of this tome. I would urge that in any future printing all Hebrew terms be transliterated, so that the person without a knowledge of the Hebrew alphabet can use this volume with maximum benefit. It indeed deserves that broad a readership.

Themelios, 2019

Despite a number of recent proposals, scholars have yet to reach a consensus regarding what the New Testament prophets were actually doing when they prophesied. In this essay, I attempt to make a contribution to New Testament studies by working towards a definition of New Testament prophecy. I proceed in three steps. First, I survey five different views on the nature of New Testament prophecy. Second, I analyze relevant texts from the New Testament to answer the question: what kind of an activity was New Testament prophecy? Third, I evaluate the arguments made for both limited prophetic authority and full prophetic authority. On the basis of the study, I conclude that prophetic activity in the New testament (1) is a human act of intelligible communication that (2) is rooted in spontaneous, divine revelation and (3) is empowered by the Holy Spirit, so that prophecy (4) consists in human speech or writing that can be attributed to the members of the Godhead and (5) that always carries complete divine authority.