Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Time and History in the Old TestamentThis is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. 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. |
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 |
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accession history Alten Testament analysis Aphek apodictic appears bayyôm hahû BH³ mg biblical chap chapter Chron clause climactic concerning conclusion context covenant cultic David declaration Deut deuteronomistic divine element emphatic episode epitomizing eschatology etiology event Exod expansion expression Ezek formula function future futuristic genres Gilgal gloss H pf hayyôm hazzeh Hebrew holy-war narrative identifying characterization II Chron impf interpretation introduced Isaiah Ishbaal Israel Jerusalem Joab Josh Judg judgment oracle Kings late literary loco māḥār Martin Noth material Moses narrator occurrences of hayyôm occurs Old Testament oracle original parallel parenesis passages past perfect consecutive pericope phrase bayyôm hahû present probably prophetic ptcp redactional redactor reference ritual saga salvation oracle Samuel Saul Saul's secondary sequence shrine statement story synchronism temporal phrase theological theophany time-designative time-identification tion tradents tradition transition verb verse word Yahweh YHWH yôm Zech
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