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Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets
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July 1, 2008
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Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets by Christopher R. Seitz Baker Academic, Grand Rapids, 2007. 264 pp. $22.99. ISBN 978-0-8010-3258-5.
CHRISTOPHER SEITZ TELLS us that the occasion for writing this book was the challenge of writing an introduction to the Prophets. Knowing how influential an introduction can be on the way its users think about and interpret the Prophets, he undertakes a reassessment of the way the Prophets have been and are "introduced" in the literature created to serve that purpose. This volume is a report of his reassessment. His thesis is that only an approach that reckons decisively with the books of the Prophets in the literary form and ...
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