By Frederik Poulsen
The prophetic books of the previous testomony supply a desirable selection of oracles, poetic pictures, and theological rules. one of the so much popular topics are these of judgment and salvation, specifically in regards to the destiny of Zion. This position, the place the folks of God reside, is alternately provided as both the thing of divine wrath or a twin of a salvific ideal.
Representing Zion presents a radical and significant examine of the photographs of Zion within the whole prophetic literature of the previous testomony. The publication demanding situations conventional interpretations of Zion and provides a clean exploration of the literary and theological nature of the biblical writings. Zion has mostly been taken care of through students as a picture of the inviolable urban regularly and unambiguously utilized by previous testomony authors. Representing Zion reveals the Zion motif to be contested, complicated and profoundly theological—a mirrored image of the ambiguous position of YHWH as pass judgement on and saviour.
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