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Interpreting Discontinuity: Isaiah’S Tyre Oracle, R. Reed Lessing
Interpreting Discontinuity: Isaiah’S Tyre Oracle, R. Reed Lessing
Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation
What follows is an investigation that specifically explores how two of the dominant methods on prophetic discourse understand discontinuity in the prophetic texts of the OT. These are redaction and rhetorical criticism. While scholarship currently offers several different rhetorical reading strategies, the one investigated here is that which pays close attention to history. Because history plays a major role in redaction criticism as well, a central question is: What is the best historical way to read a prophetic text? Such a debate between redaction and rhetorical criticism has not yet taken place in the secondary literature.