%0 Journal Article %1 Carroll1982 %A Carroll, Robert P. %D 1982 %J Zeitschrift fu:r die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft %K --Prophecies, 1-39, Bible. Eschatology--Biblical Habakkuk, Haggai Haggai, Isaiah Joel, Old Testament teaching %N 1 %P 47 - 58 %T Eschatological delay in the prophetic tradition. %U http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a6h&AN=ATLA0000792849&lang=hu&site=ehost-live %V 94 %X There are intimations in the prophetic traditions of an awareness of a delay in the realisation of future expectations. The analysis of three specific examples shows that this awareness was responded to by continued assertions that the expectations would be realised imminently. Delay is only posited in order to be denied. The texts may be seen as interpretative attempts to deal with a growing problem in Judean society in relation to prophetic beliefs. The defence of the expectations probably had a cultic context which protected the predictions from being falsified by a strong awareness of delay in their fulfilment. j.

@article{Carroll1982, abstract = {There are intimations in the prophetic traditions of an awareness of a delay in the realisation of future expectations. The analysis of three specific examples shows that this awareness was responded to by continued assertions that the expectations would be realised imminently. Delay is only posited in order to be denied. The texts may be seen as interpretative attempts to deal with a growing problem in Judean society in relation to prophetic beliefs. The defence of the expectations probably had a cultic context which protected the predictions from being falsified by a strong awareness of delay in their fulfilment. [j].}, added-at = {2015-03-12T19:48:59.000+0100}, author = {Carroll, Robert P.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/218931225aaedb70e3b8cb6d25dc35c83/zhamarusa}, interhash = {f45f5fe8caa18ef9ae5729ed72754af4}, intrahash = {18931225aaedb70e3b8cb6d25dc35c83}, issn = {0044-2526}, journal = {Zeitschrift fu:r die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft}, keywords = {--Prophecies, 1-39, Bible. Eschatology--Biblical Habakkuk, Haggai Haggai, Isaiah Joel, Old Testament teaching}, number = 1, pages = {47 - 58}, timestamp = {2015-03-12T19:51:21.000+0100}, title = {Eschatological delay in the prophetic tradition.}, url = {http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a6h&AN=ATLA0000792849&lang=hu&site=ehost-live}, volume = 94, year = 1982 }