Plowshares and Pruning Hooks: Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic

Sandy, Brent

ISBN 10: 083082653X / ISBN 13: 9780830826537

Published by IVP Academic (edition 10/16/02), 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Plowshares and Pruning Hooks: Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic
• Publisher: IVP Academic (edition 10/16/02)
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 083082653X
• ISBN 13: 9780830826537
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 10/16/02.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

D. Brent Sandy (PhD, Duke University) taught New Testament and Greek at Wheaton College and chaired the Department of Religious Studies at Grace College. He is coauthor (with John Walton) of The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority and author of Plowshares and Pruning Hooks: Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic.