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Joel: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Scripture scholar James L. Crenshaw captures the ominous, yet hopeful spirit of Joel’s prophecy in his new translation and commentary. Joel’s prophecy has an unexpectedly familiar ring to it. The biblical book of Joel is relevant to our late-twentieth-century world because it confronts an age when people tolerated almost anything, did not want someone telling them how to live their lives, and...

introduces the unit and isolates it from what goes before. A new unit is signaled by a standard formula for future events in 4:1 [3:1], kî hinnēh bayyāmîm hāhēmmâ ûbāʿēt hahî. The entire unit refers to a time after YHWH’s promises recorded in 2:18–27. That is the function of the verb wehāyâ and the temporal qualifier, ʾaḥarê-kēn (“it will take place at a later time”). The speaker of the first unit, 1–2 [28–29], is YHWH, with the people of Judah addressed frequently in second person
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