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| Sovereign states consisting of an autonomous city with its dependencies. |
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| Theme where the author looks to the future hope of salvation and balance his recurring emphasis and pattern of Israel's exile situation. |
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| Prophecy that generally addresses all the people, informs them of God's wrath against their sin, warns them of approaching judgement, calls them to repentance, and proclaims God's salvation for those who will return to him. |
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| Prophets to whom God revealed the future who then declared it to their own generations. |
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| Prophets who told forth God's truth to their own generation. |
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| Collection of texts that reflected the belief of ancient people that the world was a complex web of cause and effect relationships with a supernatural intention often coming behind an event. |
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| People who resided in and around ancient city of Mari, of whom many scholars have noted parallels with biblical prophets. |
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| Latin phrase meaning, "Prophecy after the fact" referring to a well-known event of the past being cast in predictive, futuristic language. |
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| Body of symbolic, "revelatory" documents containing a unique manner and style of communication. |
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| The part of theology that deals with the doctrine of last things. |
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| Literally a "remainder", referring to God's people who remain faithful to the Lord. |
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| Prophetic description of the coming Messiah who would be from the family of Jesse, David's father. |
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| Judgement speeches typically beginning with the word of exclamation of grief, distress, affliction, or lament. |
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| Something that gives evidence of the past, present, or future event, which serves to warn others of things to come or to prove legitimacy. |
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| Divine communications given by God to a prophet that describes his plans. |
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