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The Old Testament: An Introduction, Volume 2: Prophetic Traditions

Paul Nadim Tarazi

Volume 2 of The Old Testament: An Introduction

“In part one I venture an exegesis of the book of Amos in order to show how one can discern the original words of the prophet himself, the words of later editors, and the text’s intended message. [...]Parts two, three, and four examine the rest of the prophets and divide them into three periods: pre-exilic, exilic, and post-exilic. The goal here is to cover what I consider to be the specific input of each of the subsequent prophets, thereby sparing the reader the tediousness of going time and again over elements common to more than one prophet. And on the positive side, discussing in more detail the particular contribution of each prophet will help illuminate the lengthy and, at times, meandering path of God’s ‘prophetic word’ over the centuries. My hope is that such an endeavor will help the reader to see this prophetic word ‘at work.’”
—“Foreword”

   Summary Chronology of the Prophets
   Abbreviations
   Foreword
   Introduction
      The Prophets as Public Speakers
      The Aggressiveness of God
      The Coming End
      God Himself Causes the End
      God Acting Here and Now
      One Universal God
      Condemnation of Secularism
      The Call to Repentance
      Pictures vs. Words
      The “Pregnant” Word
   I—The Book of Amos
1 Introductory Material (1:1-2)
   Layers of Traditon (1:1a)
   Beginning and Ending Dates (1:1b)
   A Preface (1:2)
2 Oracles Against the Nations (1:3-2:16)
   Editorial Additions (1:9-12; 2:4-5)
   The Oracles Against Neighboring Nations (1:3-8; 1:13-2:3)
   The Oracle Against Israel (2:6, 13-16)
   An Editor’s Comments (2:7-12)
3 The Three “Words” (3:1-5:6, 5:8-9)
   Announcement of Punishment (3:1-2)
   Warnings Against Heedlessness (3:3-8)
   Excursus: The Heavenly Council
   The Lord’s Lawsuit (3:9-11)
   Emphasis on the Completeness of Destruction (3:12)
   God Will Abandon His Sanctuary (3:13-15)
   The Cows of Bashan (4:1-3)
   God Rejects the Israelites’ Sacrifices (4:4-5)
   Repeated Warnings Ignored (4:6-13)
   A Proleptic Lament (5:1-3)
   God Cannot be Found in Israel’s Sanctuaries (5:4-5)
   A Cultic Hymn (5:8-9)
4 The Three “Woes” (5:7, 10-25; 6:1-14)
   A Call to Repentance (5:6)
   The Orphaned Beginning of the First Woe (5:7)
   The Continuation of the First Woe (5:10)
   Editorial Embellishments (5:11-12a)
   A Fragment of the Original “Woe” (5:12b)
   Advice and Exhortation (5:13-15)
   God’s Retribution Illustrated (5:16-17)
   Warnings Against Vain Hopes (5:18-20, 27)
   Worship Without Justice is Worthless (5:21-24)
   Israel’s Apostasy Began Long Ago (5:25-26)
   The Third “Woe” (6:1-7)
   Oracles against Samaria (6:8-14)
5 The Five Visions: Amos’ Call (7:1-9:6)
   The Structure and Message of 7:1-8:3
   The First Three Visions (7:1-9)
   The Prophetic Word Rejected (7:10-13)
   “I am no prophet” (7:14-15)
   An Oracle Against Amaziah (7:16-17)
   Fourth Vision and Attached Oracles (8:1-14)
   The Fifth Vision and a Concluding Hymn (9:1-6)
6 An Epilogue (9:7-15)
   A Transition (9:7-8)
   Less Than Total Destruction (9:9-10)
   Future Restoration (9:11-15)
7 The Book of Amos and its Message
   II—The Pre-Exilic Period
8 Hosea
Hosea’s Marriage
   The First Child: Punishment Decreed for the King (1:4-6)
   The Second Child: Punishment Decreed for the Nation (1:6-8)
   The Third Child: The Punishment is Irrevocable (1:8-9)
   A Digression (1:10-2:1)
   The Sin of Israel (2:2-13)
   A Message of Hope (2:14-23)
   Another Introduction (3:1-5)
9 Isaiah
   An Introduction to the Book of Isaiah (ch.1)
   An Introduction to Chs.6-39 (chs.2-5)
   The Call of Isaiah (ch.6)
   The Sign of Immanuel (ch.7)
   The Sign of Maher-šalal-haš-baz (ch.8)
   Messianic Oracles (chs.9-12)
10 Jeremiah
   Jeremiah’s Call (ch.1)
   God Rejects His Chosen City (ch.7)
   The Book of Consolation (chs.30-33)
   The New Covenant (31:31-34)
   The Book of Jeremiah
   The books of Nahum, Zephaniah, and Habakkuk
   III—The Exilic Period
11 Ezekiel
   God’s Universality
   A Radically New Reading of the Past
   A New (Kind of) Exodus
   A New (Kind of) Israel
   A New (Kind of) Order
   The Influence of Ezekiel
12 Second Isaiah
   Characteristics of Second Isaiah’s Message
   The First Poem (Is 42:1-4)
   The Second Poem (Is 49:1-6)
   Excursus: “Israel” in Is 49:3
   The Third Servant Poem (Is 50:4-9)
   The Fourth Servant Poem (52:13-53:12)
   The Identity of the Servant of the Poems
   IV—The Post-Exilic Period
13 The Second Scripture
   Haggai and Zechariah
   Joel and Obadiah
   Jonah
   “God’s Rule/Kingdom” and Apocalypticism
   Third Isaiah
   The Book of Isaiah
   Micah
   Second Zechariah and Malachi
   The Prophetic Literature and the “Second Scripture”
14 Daniel
   The Structure of Daniel
   The Septuagint Book of Daniel
   The Influence of Daniel
   Epilogue
   Selected Bibliography
   General
   Commentaries
Index
Index of Scriptural References

Item Number: BKV752
Publication data: Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1994
Format: softcover
Number of pages: xiv + 233
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.5 cm × 14.1 cm × 1.8 cm
ISBN: 0‒88141‒106-X

$15.95 (USD)