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

What will we make of the images presented to us in biblical prophecy? How literally or figuratively should we interpret them? How did prophetic language function for those who first heard these prophecies? Without a doubt, prophetic and apocalyptic literature is some of the most difficult to understand. Recently I read D. Brent Sandy's Plowshares…