Plowshares and Pruning Hooks: Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic

by D. Brent Sandy and Brent Sandy

Book Overview

What are we to make of Isaiah's image of Mount Zion as the highest of the mountains, or Zechariah's picture of the Mount of Olives split in two, or Daniel's "beast rising out of the sea" or Revelation's "great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns"? How can Peter claim that on the day of Pentecost the prophecy of Joel was being fulfilled, with signs in heaven and wonders on earth, the sun turned to darkness and the moon to blood? The language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083082653X
• ISBN13: 9780830826537
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: IVP Academic
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"