Newness in Old Testament Prophecy: An Intertextual Study

✍ Scribed by Henk Leene

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 401
• Series: Oudtestamentische Studien / Old Testament Studies 64
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In Newness in Old Testament Prophecy: An Intertextual Study Henk Leene examines the relations between the new song raised in the Psalms, the new things concealed in Deutero-Isaiah, the new heaven and the new earth announced in Trito-Isaiah, Ezekiel’s new heart and the new spirit, and the envisioned new creation and new covenant in Jeremiah. Where these promises were mainly linked form-critically, Henk Leene assumes their direct literary relations. In what direction does the one promise allude to the other, and how do such allusions draw us into a continuing intertextual dialogue on Israel’s expectations about the future?

Most challenging is Leene’s conclusion that Jeremiah’s promise of the new covenant presumes the newness passages from both Ezekiel and Isaiah.

✦ Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 'Newness' in the Psalms on Yhwh's Kingship, Deutero- and Trito-Isaiah
3 'Newness' in Ezekiel
4 'New' at the Crossroads of Two Prophetic Traditions
5 The New as Scenario and Programme: Conclusion