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Until the Spirit Comes: The Spirit of God in the Book of Isaiah is unavailable, but you can change that!

The surge of the Pentecostal movement in this century has brought new relevance to the study of the Spirit of God in the Old Testament. Surprisingly, however, this theme has been largely neglected by Pentecostal scholars. Ma seeks to fill this gap by providing an in-depth study of the Spirit of God in the Isaianic traditions. He argues that the Old Testament concept of the Spirit of God has more...

However, a specific link between רוח and the idea of God’s holiness is not yet established (e.g. ‘holy spirit’ in Isa. 63:10–11, cf. Ps. 51:11).159 The emphasis is heavy on the issue of power. Probably this is a significant development from the common notion, ‘God’s spirit’. רוח is a distinct quality exclusively found in the deity. Secondly, רוח is a superhuman element granted to God’s chosen vessels, and this is the dominant tradition in the pre-exilic Isaianic thinking (11:1–3; 28:5–6). They have
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