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Plowshares & Pruning Hooks: Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic
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Sandy (Ph.D., Duke University) teaches New Testament and Greek at Wheaton College. His books include Plowshares and Pruning Hooks: Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Biblical prophecy for recovering dispensationalists. Only better.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Exploring the language and rhetoric of the prophetic genre, Sandy offers a careful analysis of the prophets’ use of metaphor, hyperbole, imagery, and other figurative devices. Sandy carefully walks the reader through the already fulfilled prophesies of the Old Testament, illustrating both the transparency and translucency of prophesy. Beyond understanding the prophetic role (prosecution, persuasion, and prediction), Plowshares & Pruning Hooks provides a solid hermeneutic for interpreting prophetic literature – very helpful. A