From Old Revelation to New: A Tradition-Historical and Redaction-Critical Study of Temporal Transitions in Prophetic Prediction »

From old Revelation to new takes an important step beyond the studies by Robert Carroll and Michael Fishbane in exploring inner-biblical exegesis. Simon De Vries attempts to solve the problem of ideology and technique in the expansion of prophetic prediction by schools of redactors. By analyzing those prophetic predictions that employ temporal expressions as introductory transitions - expressions such as "in that day," "behold, days are coming," and "at the end of days" - De Vries demonstrates how futuristic expectation was expanded and reshaped within the prophetic collection toward an eventual canonical form.

Society of Biblical Literature - John T. Willis

De Vries argues that redactors of OT prophetic books were theologians, who arranged, expanded, and modified earlier oral and written prophetic materials in the traditions handed down to them. They did this because they believed earlier prophetic proclamations had a continuing relevance for the people of their day. In this process, they attached their new material to the underlying material by using introductory futuristic transitional formulas....The scholarly community owes a great debt to De Vries for this meticulous and comprehensive study of temporal transitions in OT prophetic books.