The Twelve Prophets in the New Testament

It has been widely recognized that the Book of the Twelve, Hosea to Malachi, was considered a single composition in antiquity. Recent articles and monographs have discussed the internal clues to this composition, but there has been little effort to understand the way the New Testament authors quote from the Twelve in light of the compositional unity of the book. The Twelve Prophets in the New Testament contends that New Testament quotations from the Twelve presuppose knowledge of the larger whole and cannot be understood correctly apart from awareness of the compositional strategy of the Twelve.

About the author

Michael B. Shepherd received his PhD from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Louisiana College. His previous works include The Verbal System of Biblical Aramaic: A Distributional Approach (Lang, 2008) and Daniel in the Context of the Hebrew Bible (Lang, 2009).

Summary

Contends the New Testament quotations from the Twelve presuppose knowledge of the larger whole and cannot be understood correctly apart from awareness of the compositional strategy of the Twelve.

Product details

• Authors: Michael B Shepherd, Michael B. Shepherd
• Assisted by: Hemchand Gossai (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781433113468
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-1346-8
• No. of pages: 116
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 12 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 300 g
• Series: Studies in Biblical Literature; Studies in Biblical Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Altes Testament, Neues Testament, Islam, Judentum, Religion, allgemein, Hebräische Bibel, Bibel / Neues Testament, Bibel / Altes Testament, Old shepherd; Hebrew Bible