OT034-812 - Interpreting and Applying the Book of the Twelve

  • 2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • old testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

24cps OT

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code OT740-4.

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, the interpretation and application of the Book of the Twelve

B. Be able to

1. Examine recent scholarship on the interpretation and application of the Book of the Twelve

2. Demonstrate skill in utilising diverse scholarship in the interpretation and application of the Book of the Twelve

3. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on the interpretation and application of the Book of the Twelve

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Interpreting and Applying the Book of the Twelve’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

  • Recent research on the formation of the Book of the Twelve and the implications for reading the individual books that comprise it.
  • The contribution of each of the books to the message of the Book of the Twelve.
  • Key theological themes across the Book of the Twelve, such as: covenant; repentance; the “Yahweh creed”; Jerusalem / Zion; the foreign nations; the Day of the Lord; the Messiah.
  • Exegesis of select passages and/or shorter books from the Book of the Twelve (these must not overlap with what students have studied in their undergraduate courses).
  • How to preach a series on selected books from the Book of the Twelve, including Christian application.

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.

 

Recommended:

Albertz, R., Nogalski, J. D., and J. Wöhrle (eds.), Perspectives on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve: Methodological Foundations - Redactional Processes - Historical Insights (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012).

Barton, J., “The Day of Yahweh in the Minor Prophets”, in C. McCarthy and J. F. Healey (eds.), Biblical and Near Eastern Essays: Essays in Honour of Kevin J. Cathcart (JSOTSup 375; Sheffield: T&T Clark, 2004).

Ben Zvi, E., Nogalski, J. D., and Römer, T., Two Sides of a Coin: Juxtaposing Views on Interpreting the Book of the Twelve / the Twelve Prophetic Books (Analecta Gorgiana 201; Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2009).

Boda, M. J., Floyd, M. H., and Toffelmire, C. M. (eds.), The Book of the Twelve and the New Form Criticism (Atlanta: SBL, 2015).

Coggins, R. J., “The Minor Prophets – One Book or Twelve?”, in S. E. Porter, P. Joyce, and D. E. Orton (eds.), Crossing The Boundaries: Essays in Biblical Interpretation in Honour of Michael D. Goulder (Leiden: Brill, 1994), 57-68.

Fuhr, R. A. and G. E. Yates, The Message of the Twelve: Hearing the Voice of the Minor Prophets (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2016).

House, P. R., The Unity of the Twelve (Bible and Literature Series; 27; Sheffield: Almond Press, 1990).

Hwang, J., “My Name Will Be Great Among the Nations: The Missio Dei in the Book of the Twelve”, Tyndale Bulletin 65 (2014), 161-80.

Jones, B. A., The Formation of the Book of the Twelve: A Study in Text and Canon (SBL Dissertation Series 149; Atlanta: SBL, 1995).

Ko, G., “The Ordering of the Twelve as Israel’s Historiography”, in M. J. Boda and L. M. Wray Beal (eds.), Prophets, Prophecy, and Ancient Israelite Historiography (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2013), 315-32.

LeCureux, J. T., The Thematic Unity of the Book of the Twelve (HBM, 41; Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2012).

Nogalski, J. D. and M. A. Sweeney (eds.), Reading and Hearing the Book of the Twelve (SBLSS, 15; Atlanta: SBL, 2000).

Nogalski, J. D., Literary Precursors to the Book of the Twelve (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1993).

Nogalski, J. D., Redactional Processes in the Book of the Twelve (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1993).

Nogalski, J. D., “Reading the Book of the Twelve Theologically: The Twelve as Corpus: Interpreting Unity and Discord”, Interpretation 61 (2007), 115-22.

Nogalski, J. D., “Recurring Themes in the Book of the Twelve: Creating Points of Contact for a Theological Reading”, Interpretation 61 (2007), 125-36.

Petterson, A. R., “The Shape of the Davidic Hope Across the Book of the Twelve”, JSOT 35 (2010), 225-46.

Redditt, P. L., “Recent Research on the Book of the Twelve as One Book”, Currents in Research: Biblical Studies 9 (2001), 47-80.

Redditt, P. L. and A. Schart (eds.), Thematic Threads in the Book of the Twelve (BZAW, 25; Berlin: Walter de Gruyer, 2003).

Schart, A., “Twelve, Book of the: History of Interpretation”, in M. J. Boda and J. G. McConville (eds.), Dictionary of the Old Testament Prophets (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2012), 806-17.

Schreiner, T. R., The King in his Beauty: A Biblical theology of the Old and New Testaments (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013), 397-419.

Seitz, C. R., Prophecy and Hermeneutics: Toward a New Introduction to the Prophets (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007).

Seitz, C. R., The Goodly Fellowship of the Prophets: The Achievement of Association in Canon Formation (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2009).

Sweeney, M. A., “Twelve, Book of the”, in M. J. Boda and J. G. McConville (eds.), Dictionary of the Old Testament Prophets (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2012), 788-806.

Timmer, D. C., “The Twelve”, in M. V. Van Pelt (ed.), A Biblical-Theological Introduction to the Old Testament: The Gospel Promised (Wheaton: Illinois, 2016), 321-39.

Timmer, D. C., The Non-Israelite Nations in the Book of the Twelve: Thematic Coherence and the Diachronic-Synchronic Relationship in the Minor Prophets (Biblical Interpretation Series 135; Leiden: Brill, 2015).

Watts, J. W. and P. R. House (eds.), Forming Prophetic Literature: Essays on Isaiah and the Twelve in honor of John D.W. Watts (JSOTSup, 235; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996).