The God of the Prophets: An Analysis of Divine Action'Content analysis'-which is a computer-assisted form of textual analysis-is used to examine divine activity in six prophetic texts, comparing God's activity to that of humans. In this methodologically innovative study, the author concludes, in the light of quantitative data, that God is harsher to non-Israelites than to Israelites in all the texts, and much kinder to Israelites in Joel than in the typical prophet. God and humans are involved in much the same kinds of physical and mental processes, but to considerably different degrees. Griffin argues persuasively that the God of the prophets is not the 'wholly other' of some theologies, but neither do his actions follow exactly the human pattern. |
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The God of the Prophets: An Analysis of Divine Action William Paul Griffin No preview available - 1997 |
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Action/activity Qty activity in Joel Actors AGRI ANMP ASMB Bad ethics book of Joel Categories Context-Dependent Evaluation coded Cognition Comparative Frequencies Significance Complements Significance COMS SORR COND DEST Content Analysis Context-Dependent Hebrew English CP WO COND DBAS SHAM Debasement DEST 3 VB DEST ILL DEST VB divine activity Dominant Metacategories ELMT Emotions English p.Spch Metacategories ESTB ETHB ETHB 2 VB ETHG Ethically bad Exaltation Fear FOREIGNERS in JOEL Hate Healing Hebrew English p.Spch HUMN Illness/injury insects Israel ISRAELITES in JOEL JOEL Total activity LEGL Love MV RELO MILI MV RELO SEND MV WO RELO NLRT Non-alertness Null hypothesis Obey/agree Old Testament p.Spch Metacategories Categories Peace/shalom PRID PROC prophets PUNI DEST Punishment REAS Rejection SB CP SB HUIF Shaming significantly SORR Sorrow SPP and Joel ST COND VB BN VB CP VB EM VB IN MV VB MV RELO VB WO DEST Weal WLTH Yahweh نه نه نه