Description
Book SynopsisThese seminal essays have been carefully selected to provide a comprehensive introduction to both the major interpretive issues and the major interpreters of biblical prophetic literature. The essays discuss: The Near Eastern Background; The Message of the Prophets; The Art of Prophecy; Prophecy and Society; The Developing Tradition; Prophecy after the Prophets; and Future Directions.
Table of ContentsSeries Preface
Editor’s Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Robert P. Gordon - A Story of Two Paradigm Shifts
Part 1: The Near Eastern Background
Introduction
Moshe Weinfeld - Ancient Near Eastern Patterns in Prophetic Literature
Abraham Malamat - Prophecy at Mari
Part 2: The Message of the Prophets
Introduction
John Barton - Ethics in Isaiah of Jerusalem
C. Westermann - Oracles of Salvation
Part 3: The Art of Prophecy
Introduction
W. David Stacey - The Function of Prophetic Drama
Walter Houston - What Did the Prophets Think They Were Doing? Speech Acts and Prophetic Discourse in the Old Testament
Stephen A. Geller - Were the Prophets Poets?
D. J. A. Clines - Language as Event
Michael V. Fox - The Rhetoric of Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of the Bones
Carol A. Newsom - A Maker of Metaphors: Ezekiel’s Oracles against Tyre
John T. Willis - Dialogue between Prophet and Audience as a Rhetorical Device in the Book of Jeremiah
Michael Fishbane - The Priestly Blessing and Its Aggadic Reuse
John Day - Inner-biblical Interpretation in the Prophets
J. H. Eaton - Festal Drama
P. R. House - Dialogue in Zephaniah
David F. Payne - Jonah from the Perspective of Its Audience
Part 4: Prophecy and Society
Introduction
David L. Petersen - Ecstasy and Role Enactment
A. Graeme Auld - Prophets through the Looking Glass: Between Writings and Moses
Burke O. Long - Social Dimensions of Prophetic Conflict
R. R. Wilson - Interpreting Israel’s Religion: An Anthropological Perspective on the Problem of False Prophecy
Ernest W. Nicholson - Prophecy and Covenant
Thomas W. Overholt - Prophecy in History: The Social Reality of Intermediation
R. P. Carroll - Ancient Israelite Prophecy and Dissonance Theory
Joseph Blenkinsopp - The ‘Servants of the Lord’ in Third Isaiah: Profile of a Pietistic Group in the Persian Epoch
Part 5: The Developing Tradition
Introduction
Walther Zimmerli - From Prophetic Word to Prophetic Book
Ronald E. Clements - Prophets, Editors, and Tradition
H. G. M. Williamson - The Prophet and the Plumb-Line: A Redaction-Critical Study of Amos 7
P. R. Ackroyd - Isaiah 36-39: Structure and Function
Otto Kaiser - Literary Criticism and Tendez-Criticism: Methodological Reflections on the Exegesis of Isaiah
Brevard S. Childs - The Canonical Shape of the Prophetic Literature
Part 6: Prophecy after the Prophets
Introduction
Thomas W. Overholt - The End of Prophecy: No Players without a Program
F. F. Bruce - Prophetic Interpretation in the Septuagint
Christopher T. Begg - The ‘Classical Prophets’ in Josephus’ Antiquities
John F. A. Sawyer - Prophecy and Interpretation
Part 7: Future Directions
Werner H. Schmidt - Contemporary Issues
Ferdinand E. Deist - The Prophets: Are We Heading for a Paradigm Switch?
Robert P. Gordon - Present Trends and Future Directions
Indexes
Index of Authorities
Index of Scripture
