Oracles of God: Perceptions of Ancient Prophecy in Israel after the Exile
Oracles of God: Perceptions of Ancient Prophecy in Israel after the Exile

Oracles of God: Perceptions of Ancient Prophecy in Israel after the Exile

by John Barton

Pages 336
Publisher Oxford University Press
Published 2007
ISBN-13 9780195334357
Oracles of God is a study of ideas about ancient prophecy current in Judaism and Christianity from the Exile to the end of the New Testament period. It examines the prophetic section of the Old Testament canon in both Hebrew and Greek traditions, the various pictures of prophets, their role and message, and looks at the various ways in which prophetic scripture were read in the period.

Source material discussed includes much apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writing, documents from Qumran, the works of Philo and Josephus, the New Testament and some rabbinic literature. The book is essential reading for all students of Old and New Testament ideas about prophecy.

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