In this engaging study, Brent Sandy explores the language and imagery of biblical prophecy and apocalyptic, and offers guidelines for understanding their function and fulfilment within Scripture, and how to read them against the horizon of the future.
In today's reading culture, it is easy to forget that we receive God's message far differently from how the original hearers would have heard it. D. Brent Sandy explores how oral communication shaped biblical writers and ancient hearers, and provides constructive ways for modern readers to be better hearers and performers of Scripture.