Haggai: Continental Commentaries

by Margaret Kohl, Hans Walter Wolff

Overview

In this distinguished commentary, Wolff's task is to defend Haggai as much more than a minor prophet. He was a man whose feet were placed firmly on the ground, one of the dominating figures of the postexilic community, the main instigator of the rebuilding of the Jerusalem temple, and so responsible for inaugurating a new era in Jewish history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800695125
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Series:	Continental Commentaries
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.56(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Margaret Kohl attended Oxford University and specialized in translating German theology after moving to Germany. She lives near Munich.

Hans Walter Wolff is emeritus professor of Old Testament at the University of Heidelberg and the author of many widely used studies.

Table of Contents

Preface

Translator's Preface

Introduction

1. Haggai's Time

2. Haggai the Man

3. The Book of Haggai

4. Haggai's Language

5. Haggai's Message

6. Literature

Commentary

First Scene: Time to Build the Temple?

Excursus: The Persian Administrative System

Second Scene: The Turn to Blessing

Third Scene: The Raising Up of the Assailed

Excursus: The Second Year of Darius

Excursus: The Second Temple

Fourth Scene: Impurity Is Infectious

Fifth Scene: Yahweh's Signet Ring

Excursus: In the Book of Haggai

Manuscript Sigla

Hebrew Grammars Cited

Abbreviations

Index of Hebrew Words

Index of Biblical References

Index of Names and Subjects