Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Time and History in the Old Testament

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1975 - Religion - 388 pages
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This is the first systematic and comprehensive study of the biblical view of time and history as it occurs in the Old Testament. The author specifically focuses on the use and function of certain formal expressions involving the Hebrew word yom, 'day'. The first chapter formally surveys the use of yom in the Old Testament. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 investigate, respectively, The Day Past, The Day Present, and The Day Future. They discuss, first, the various genres of historical narration: legend, saga, annals, etc,; second, various kinds of discourse in which the meaning of 'today' is spoken about; and third, the prophetic and apocalyptic genres, in which the future is being defined from the present point of view.
 

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Contents

1 The problem of time and history in biblical theology
31
2 Terms for the day within the Hebrew vocabulary of time
39
The Day Past bayyom hahu
55
1 Glosses
58
2 Incorporating supplements
60
3 Concluding formulae
69
b Within original contexts
73
4 Transitional formulae between episodes
98
5 The Writings
246
The day present as a moment of crucial decision
252
The Day Future bayyom hahu
279
1 The future extrapolated from the past and present
281
a deferred hayyom
282
3 Bayyom hahu pointing to the coming day
284
b Referring to the historicaleschatological future
285
1 Outside the prophetic corpus
286

b Within original contexts
101
5 Narrative elements in nonnarrative pericopes
117
a Deuteronomistic
118
b Prophetic
121
The day past as a moment of revelatory confrontation
126
The Day Present hayybm and Its Equivalents
137
1 Bayydm beesem hayydm hazzeh
140
a In past narration
141
b In reference to the cultic presentfuture
144
c In discourse referring to the historical present
146
d Conclusion
151
b Adverbial use
153
1 Tetrateuch
154
2 Deuteronomy
164
a Redactional and editorial
167
b Pluralistic parenesis
173
c Singularistic parenesis
179
d The lawbook
184
e The promulgation formula
186
3 The Former Prophets
187
4 The Latter Prophets
238
2 Within the prophetic corpus
295
a Glosses
296
b Incorporating supplements
297
c Transitional formulae
310
d Concluding formulae
314
The day future as a new opportunity for decisive action
323
The Texture and Quality of Time in Old Testament Tradition
333
1 The vindication of a comprehensive methodology
335
2 Lexical data and contextual function
336
3 Timedesignatives determinative for literary criticism
337
4 The formal function of timedesignatives
338
5 Yahwehs day past present and future
340
6 The coming day imminent or remote prophecy and apocalyptic
342
7 The quantitative and the qualitative approach to time
343
8 Culticgnomic versus historical event
346
Glossary
351
INDEXES
361
2 Modern authors
370
3 Scripture references
373
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