By William Paul Griffin
ISBN-10: 1850756775
ISBN-13: 9781850756774
'Content analysis'-which is a computer-assisted kind of textual analysis-is used to ascertain divine job in six prophetic texts, evaluating God's task to that of people. during this methodologically cutting edge research, the writer concludes, within the mild of quantitative info, that God is harsher to non-Israelites than to Israelites in all of the texts, and lots more and plenty kinder to Israelites in Joel than within the usual prophet. God and people are excited about a lot a similar different types of actual and psychological tactics, yet to significantly varied levels. Griffin argues persuasively that the God of the prophets isn't the 'wholly different' of a few theologies, yet neither do his activities persist with precisely the human pattern.
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Other verbs indicates a difference between a descriptive account and a prescriptive account. This was noted in my earlier study on Joel (see appendix, My Previous Studies). 60 The God of the Prophets IN PA PN PP PR PT RP SB VB VI Interjection Prepositional pronoun Proper name Preposition Pronoun Particle Relative pronoun Nouns and other substantives Verb (non-instruction) Verbal instructions (roughly equals imperatives) c. Negation The negation of words makes them semantically different from their unmodified counterparts.
Actor/action/complement (who does what unto whom; stated in terms of categories) B. Non-conceptual classifications 1. 2. 3. Part of speech Evaluation Negation or not C. Text for study 1. 2. 3. Hebrew word Hebrew root English root translation D. Indices 1. 2. Book, chapter, and verse Word number 2. 01 0564 GOD IF HUGP HUMN IF LO NATN HUMN HUGP NSCR LEGL BN HU IF IF LO HUMN or LAND NSCR QL NEC ISRL ISRL +2 +2 +2 DWEL ISRL ISRL Book Chapter Verse Word No. 01 0570 Actor/Complement A=Actor R=Recipient ANATN AHUMN AHUGP AISRL RGOD RCOMV AGOD RNATN RHUMN RHUGP RISRL RDWEL 5.
REAS reason and decision. Knowledge is coded KNOW. 56 The God of the Prophets RELO relocation, whether actions, humans, objects, or vehicles of relocation. Opposite of STAY. REWD reward. Opposite of PUNI. RJCT rejection, rebellion, resistance, and rejection of another's desires; includes persons with the attitude and the attitude itself. Opposite of KEEP. SEEK seeking and inquiry. SEND sending or causing something to be moved. References to moving on one's own accord are coded RELO. SENS the senses of sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch.
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