By Stephen Prickett
This learn specializes in the Bible as a landmark of literature, displaying either the way it has encouraged writers throughout the a while and the way it in flip has been inspired by means of modern literature. It describes what's recognized concerning the ancient context of the files, the alterations of interpretation they've got passed through over the centuries, and the issues and impression of varied translations, starting from Tyndale to the excellent news Bible.
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We need not believe that he contradicted himself on any particular occasion; rather, the Book of Isaiah's present alternation of judgement and promise prophecies is an aspect of the literary editing of the book (and of course implies a particular view about God's open-ended plans for Israel). Some sections that are more clearly elaborations of the book from after Isaiah's own time are substantial compositions on their own, such as the 'Isaiah Apocalypse' in chapters 24-7, which includes notions such as a universal judgement on the whole earth and a Messianic banquet, which anticipate the details of more strictly apocalyptic books.
A comparison of Spirits on pp. 74-9 a sort of appendix to this chapter, is an attempt to compare at some length a text from the Hebrew Bible with one on a similar theme from the New Testament, as an example of both continuity and transformation in the biblical tradition. God God is in many ways the leading character of the Bible, and the Bible presents human history as being under his ultimate control. Most Jews and Christians over the centuries have felt no need to question the existence or nature of this 'character', but, with modern critical study of the Bible and its cultural 43 44 T H E BIBLE background, and modern insight into the ways religions emerge and develop, such questions naturally arise.
However, the Deuteronomist adds, in I Kings 11, that Solomon's many 'foreign women' 'turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not wholly true to Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father'. This note recurs repeatedly in the remainder of Kings. Also recurring, and closely related to judgements on the Yahwistic orthodoxy of the kings, are stories about prophets: on the one side, the prophets of Yahweh Elijah, Elisha, Micah and Isaiah - urge the kings to follow the commandments of Yahweh, and correctly predict the future; and on the other, 'false' and deluded prophets mislead kings and people with promises of success.