Key Words, Chapter 7

Question 1

Announcement of judgment

Answer 1

a prophetic oracle involving the stating of an accusation and the pronouncement of the ensuing judgment (e.g. Hosea 4:1-6, because of this, therefore that; Isaiah 10:8-19, for it says, therefore the Lord will send) - a category including woe oracle, lament, covenant, and lawsuit. [Should this read “and covenant lawsuit”?]

Question 2

Apocalypse

Answer 2

a genre of literature with a narrative framework in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal and spatial (refers to a particular genre of literature written between approximately 200 B.C. and A.D. 200).

Question 3

Apocalyptic

Answer 3

a world view anticipating God’s climactic and cataclysmic intervention in human history at the end of time

Question 4

Covenant lawsuit

Answer 4

a type of prophetic judgment speech in which God summons his people to appear before him for covenant violations

Question 5

Disputation

Answer 5

a literary device that deals with a given topic by way of presenting different sides of an argument, often involving declaration, discussion, and refutation (e.g. Malachi)

Question 6

Exhortation speech

Answer 6

an instructional message in which the recipients are urged to follow the Lord and his standards

Question 7

Instructional account

Answer 7

various forms of prophetic material, including disputation and exhortation speeches, satire, or wisdom sayings (and prophetic narratives, p. 774)

Question 8

Lament

Answer 8

a special type of a prophetic announcement of judgment similar to the woe oracle in which the prophet deplores the state of affairs among God’s people (Amos 5:1-17 - “Hear … a dirge: She has fallen”; Ezekiel 19 - “a lamentation … two young lions captured; a vine transplanted”)

Question 9

Prophetic narrative

Answer 9

an account of the prophet’s calling, life, and work (vocation reports such as Jeremiah 1 and Amos 7; biographical/autobiographical reports; Jeremiah 26ff/34ff and Ezek. 24; three more: dramatized, Isaiah 20; confessions, Daniel 9; public events, Is 36-39; Jer 39-44; Ez 24)

Question 10

Salvation oracle

Answer 10

prophecy that deals with God’s saving work, such as a promise of deliverance, a kingdom oracle, or apocalyptic

Question 11

Satire

Answer 11

an attempt to demonstrate through ridicule or rebuke the vice or folly of that which appears to be improper or ill-conceived (involving an object, a vehicle, e.g. metaphor, a satiric tone, and a satiric norm, i.e. standard: e.g. Jonah, Amos, Malachi)

Question 12

Vision or dream report

Answer 12

instance in which a prophet receives God’s message in a vision, which he in turn is to proclaim to his people

Question 13

Woe oracle

Answer 13

a special type of a prophetic announcement of judgment that involves (1) invective (the pronouncement of woe); (2) threat (the details of coming judgment); and (3) criticism (the reason for the coming judgment)