{"product_id":"a-message-from-the-great-king-reading-malachi-in-light-of-ancient-persian-royal-messenger-texts-from-the-time-of-xerxes-9781575063942","title":"A Message from the Great King: Reading Malachi in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe academy has not been kind to Malachi. Indeed, some of the most influential and seminal studies on the book denigrate its style, message, and overall artistry. This negative assessment proves extensive in the history of scholarship. Furthermore, the studies demonstrating a more positive assessment of Malachi do so without offering serious challenges to these long-standing denigrations. Complicating the matter is the observation that critical study has proffered numerous suggestions for what Malachi contains while failing to provide a viable model of what Malachi actually is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Message from the Great King\u003c\/i\u003e presents serious challenges to the guild’s prior assessments and conclusions about the book. Through an interdisciplinary approach that synthesizes insights from literary theory, thorough historical reconstruction, and a close reading of the biblical text, R. Michael Fox makes a formidable case that a root messenger metaphor pervades the entire text of Malachi. Viewed and read through this new lens, Malachi’s artistry becomes more readily apparent and its theological message more intense and demanding. \u003ci\u003eA Message from the Great King\u003c\/i\u003e provides serious reassessment of the academy’s long-standing denigrations of the book and a compelling answer to what Malachi actually is. Accompanying these insights into Malachi are new methodological procedures and exercises that merit further attention and reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fox provides a fresh reading of Malachi by constantly looking for words, concepts, and images that may allude to a Persian background. It is an important task of the historical-critical enterprise to reconstruct the meaning of the metaphors in the time of the first addressees of the text. Further, it is certainly worth exploring what kind of associations an ancient reader in the Persian province of Yehud had when reading the text. Fox chooses to do so by taking the role of a messenger as the root metaphor.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Aaron Schart \u003ci\u003eReview of Biblical Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. History of Research: Entrenched Trajectories and a New Direction Malachi as Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalachi’s Historical Context: Primary Perspectives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA New Paradigm for Reading Malachi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Methodology: Adapting Michael Ward’s Donegality for Investigating Malachi’s Root Messenger Metaphor Elaborating on “Root Metaphor”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverview of Ward’s Planet Narnia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExample: The Lunar Donegality of The Silver Chair Adapting Ward’s Methodology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Reconstruction: Building a Messenger Lens for Reading Malachi Royal Messengers in Achaemenid Persia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConceptualizing Hebrew Prophets as Ancient Near Eastern Messengers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: A Cultural Milieu and a Conceptual Heritage\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Poiema: Malachi’s Messenger Decorations and Root Messenger Metaphor \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalachi’s Messenger Poiema\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcursus 1: Love, Hate, and ANE Royal Messengers Excursus 2: On Malachi’s “Appendixes”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary: Gradations of Decorations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Logos: The Impact of Malachi’s Root Messenger Metaphor Rethinking Malachi’s Form\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSynthesis: Reading Malachi as a Royal Message\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToward Malachi’s Theological Message\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRethinking Malachi’s Literary Quality Toward Future Study\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 1: Historical Overview of Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex of Scripture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041462616407,"sku":"9781575063942","price":33.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781575063942.jpg?v=1750950373","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-message-from-the-great-king-reading-malachi-in-light-of-ancient-persian-royal-messenger-texts-from-the-time-of-xerxes-9781575063942","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}