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The Signs of a Prophet: The Prophetic Actions of Jesus, by Morna D. Hooker. London: SCM Press, 1997. Pp. x + 131. £9.95. ISBN 0-334-02702-0 (paper)

The Signs of a Prophet: The Prophetic Actions of Jesus, by Morna D. Hooker. London: SCM Press,... 360 possible that recourse to the individual concordances accompanying the editions and the evolving methods of material reconstruction will facilitate more joins, and will issue in rescuing a few more complete sentences. The editors deserve praise and thanks for their efforts at squeezing sense out of such fragmentary texts. Weston Jesuit School of Theology DANIEL J. HARRINGTON BOOK REVIEWS The Signs of a Prophet: The Prophetic Actions of Jesus, by Morna D. Hooker. London: SCM Press, 1997. Pp. x + 131. £9.95. ISBN 0-334- 02702-0 (paper). Moma Hooker, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, here presents the 1995 Shaffer Lectures (Yale) and the 1996 Smyth Lectures (Columbia), together with her late husband's 1993 Peake Memorial Lecture on "The Last Supper as Prophetic Drama." The book's focus is on the prophetic actions of Jesus, considered not as mere visual aids or acted parables, but as "dramatic presentations of the truth, an unveiling of what already exists in the divine intention" (p. 4). Since in the first chapter Hooker sets the prophetic actions of Jesus in a Jewish context, one must ask to what extent she has taken account of the DSS in setting the Jewish http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Dead Sea Discoveries Brill

The Signs of a Prophet: The Prophetic Actions of Jesus, by Morna D. Hooker. London: SCM Press, 1997. Pp. x + 131. £9.95. ISBN 0-334-02702-0 (paper)

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Dead Sea Discoveries , Volume 4 (3): 360 – Jan 1, 1997
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© 1997 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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360 possible that recourse to the individual concordances accompanying the editions and the evolving methods of material reconstruction will facilitate more joins, and will issue in rescuing a few more complete sentences. The editors deserve praise and thanks for their efforts at squeezing sense out of such fragmentary texts. Weston Jesuit School of Theology DANIEL J. HARRINGTON BOOK REVIEWS The Signs of a Prophet: The Prophetic Actions of Jesus, by Morna D. Hooker. London: SCM Press, 1997. Pp. x + 131. £9.95. ISBN 0-334- 02702-0 (paper). Moma Hooker, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, here presents the 1995 Shaffer Lectures (Yale) and the 1996 Smyth Lectures (Columbia), together with her late husband's 1993 Peake Memorial Lecture on "The Last Supper as Prophetic Drama." The book's focus is on the prophetic actions of Jesus, considered not as mere visual aids or acted parables, but as "dramatic presentations of the truth, an unveiling of what already exists in the divine intention" (p. 4). Since in the first chapter Hooker sets the prophetic actions of Jesus in a Jewish context, one must ask to what extent she has taken account of the DSS in setting the Jewish

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