Forthtelling, Not Foretelling: Biblical Prophecy - Oxford Scholarship
Forthtelling, Not Foretelling Biblical Prophecy Chapter:Source:Author(s):Steven L. McKenziePublisher:DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195161496.003.0003 Christian readers typically misunderstand prophecy in the Bible because they assume that its primary intent is to foretell the future. This chapter shows that the intent of the genre of prophecy in the Hebrew Bible was not primarily to predict the future—certainly not hundreds of years in advance—but rather to address specific social, political, an...
