Old Testament Prophecy

Ronald E. Clements' Old Testament Prophecy: From Oracles to Canon is a collection of Clements' formerly published writings. The essays pertain to the study of the prophetic corpus of the Old Testament. The essays are arranged in the book in canonical order, with Clements' providing insights on a variety of significant issues being debated among the community of theology scholars. Old Testament Prophecy is structured in seven parts, including and introduction and the following parts devoted to the prophets and prophecies: 1) Prophet, King, and Messiah; 2) Isaiah; 3) Jeremiah; 4) Ezekiel; 5) The Rise of Apocalyptic; and 6) The Canon of the Prophets. As Clements makes clear in his preface, "To anyone who has spent much time with the prophetic writings of the Bible, it becomes apparent that their essential meaning and message is often of a highly complex character."

The introduction to Clements' book, The Interpretation of Old Testament Prophecy: 1965-1995, is the one section of the book not previously published. In it Clements describes how the form-critical approaches on Old Testament prophecy since 1965 have been broadened and outmoded over the past thirty years. Clements then turns to Isaiah as a means of showing how the words of the prophets must be examined in a broader context, recognizing the "individuality and creativity of each of the great prophets�set in context." Clements points out the strongly political undercurrent of the messages o

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nstruction "leave us with a clear and coherent account of the prophet's message at the time of the Syro-Ephraimite conflict and a convincing explanation as to why this message was formally assuring in content, but ultimately threatening in its implications once it had been rejected by Ahaz." In Beyond Tradition-History: Deutero-Isaianic Development of First Isaiah's Themes, Clements explores the similarities to be found in Isaiah 1-39 and 40-55. He argues that Isaiah 40-55 is actually a purposeful effort to copy themes found in Isaiah 1-39. However, he argues that this purposeful copying is an effort to attempt to present the information in 40-55 as a "supplement and sequel." In other sections of the book, Clements continues to deconstruct scholarship on the prophets and their prophecy. In Jeremiah: Prophet of Hope, he seeks to argue against the conventional image of Jeremiah as a weeping prophet. To achieve this theoretical position, Clements underlines a number of texts within the anthology of Jeremiah that are positive or at least hopeful. Clements argues that Jeremiah 32: 1-15 is an extremely important passage for illustrating Jeremiah's hope for the future, one in which the great prophet narrates an incident he was

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