Exile as purification: reconstructing the "book of the four"
Proposing some methodological clarifications, the hypothesis developed by Nogalski and Schart that there existed a Book of the Four is developed further. The book consists of the passages Hosea 1-14 (without 2:1-3, 20, 23-25; 3:5ab); Amos 1:1-9:10; Mie 1:1, 3-3:12; 5:8-13; Zeph 1:1-3:13*. It constit...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2003
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Thematic threads in the Book of the Twelve
Year: 2003, Pages: 232-251 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Micah
B Hosea B Zephaniah B Minor Prophets B Cleaning B Exile B Amos |
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| Summary: | Proposing some methodological clarifications, the hypothesis developed by Nogalski and Schart that there existed a Book of the Four is developed further. The book consists of the passages Hosea 1-14 (without 2:1-3, 20, 23-25; 3:5ab); Amos 1:1-9:10; Mie 1:1, 3-3:12; 5:8-13; Zeph 1:1-3:13*. It constitutes an intentional composition, structured by a chain of passages that proclaim YHWH's ongoing purifying judgments: Hos 3:1-5*; 14:2-5 (where judgment had already been announced in the tradition), and Amos 9:7-10; Mie 5:9-13; Zeph 1:4-6; 3:1-13* (where judgment is newly formulated). By his judgments YHWH separates Israel and Judah from all those things and persons that have led the people to sin against him: the cult, the idols, the kingdom, the weapons, the fortresses, and the upper class. Thus, in the view of the book, all those losses, which had been lamented between 732 and 587 B.C., actually happened for the benefit of Israel. Moreover, God's purifying acts radically determine Israel's new start after the exile. The work of the Book of the Four redaction can especially be seen in Hos 1:5, 7; 3:lbb; 4:1*, 15; 8:1b, 6a, 14; 11:5b; Amos 1:1b, 9-10, llf.; 2:4-5, 10-12; 3:1b*, 7; 5:25(7); 8:llf.; 9:7-10; Mie 1:1, 5b-7, 13bß; 5:8(7), 9-13; Zeph 1:1, 3-6, 13b, 17aß; 2:3a; 2:5-3:8ba*, 11-13 (without 2:7, 9, 10-11; 3:8bß-10). |
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| ISBN: | 3110175940 |
| Contains: | In: Thematic threads in the Book of the Twelve
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9783110892512.232 DOI: 10.15496/publikation-70785 HDL: 10900/129422 |