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Haggai

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This new commentary is organized around a distinctive discourse analysis of the small prophetic book of Haggai, and an appreciation of its tightly crafted narrative. Identifying six discrete oracles from the prophet Haggai, Meadowcroft structures his analysis of the narrative around those six oracles.

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This new commentary is organized around a distinctive discourse analysis of the small prophetic book of Haggai, and an appreciation of its tightly crafted narrative. Identifying six discrete oracles from the prophet Haggai, Meadowcroft structures his analysis of the narrative around those six oracles.

Thematically, the centre of Haggai’s prophecy is the role of the temple within the life of the people of God. The desolation of the temple is bound up with the desolation of the land and the desolation of the people on the land. Rebuilding the temple will be the means to break the cycle of desolation. But things are more complex than that. Rebuilding the temple must happen within the fraught imperial context; and rebuilding the temple will foreground a tension between institutional life and the life of the Spirit.

Contextualizing Haggai in today’s world, Meadowcroft offers an extensive prolegomenon on reading Haggai as scripture. In it he hears a challenge to the Church in the West and a call to rediscover humanity’s priestly role in the temple of an environment under threat of desolation.

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  1. John Kessler, Catholic Biblical Quarterl

    [T]his is an excellent volume, providing an introduction to the plethora of issues relating to the reading and appropriation of Haggai.

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Author
Tim Meadowcroft
List Price
£35 / $60 / €50
Series
Readings: A New Biblical Commentary
Scholars' Price
£17.50 / $30 / €25
ISBN 13 hardback
978-1-905048-59-5
Paperback price
£15 / $25 / €22.50
ISBN 13 Paperback
978-1-905048-60-1
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Hardback / Paperback
Page Extent
276
Publication Date
Oct-06
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