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Constructs of prophecy in the former and latter prophets and other texts / edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Martti Nissinen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ancient Near East monographs ; v. 4.Publication details: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, c2011.Description: xv, 247 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781589836006 (paper binding : alk. paper)
  • 1589836006 (paper binding : alk. paper)
  • 9781589835993 (electronic format)
  • 1589835999 (electronic format)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 224.066 23
LOC classification:
  • BS1198 .C66 2011
Contents:
Introduction -- Constructs of prophets and prophecy in the book of Chronicles -- Some precedents for the religion of the book: Josiah's book and ancient revelatory literature -- The Weberian construct of prophecy and womanist and feminist recuperative cirticism -- I Samuel 1-8 the prophet as agent povocateur[sic] -- Daniel: sage, seer ... and prophet? -- Cult of personality the eclipse of pre-exilic Judahite cultic structures in the book of Jeremiah -- Zephaniah how this book became prophecy -- The shape of things to come redaction and the early Second Temple period prophetic tradition -- Israel and the nations in the later latter prophets -- Samuel's institutional identity in the deuteronomistic history -- Ezekiel: a compromised prophet in reduced circumstance -- The Qur'anic David.
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Proceedings of meetings of the Prophetic Texts and Their Ancient Contexts Group of the Society of Biblical Literature held in 2007 in Washington, D.C. and in 2008 in Boston, Mass.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- Constructs of prophets and prophecy in the book of Chronicles -- Some precedents for the religion of the book: Josiah's book and ancient revelatory literature -- The Weberian construct of prophecy and womanist and feminist recuperative cirticism -- I Samuel 1-8 the prophet as agent povocateur[sic] -- Daniel: sage, seer ... and prophet? -- Cult of personality the eclipse of pre-exilic Judahite cultic structures in the book of Jeremiah -- Zephaniah how this book became prophecy -- The shape of things to come redaction and the early Second Temple period prophetic tradition -- Israel and the nations in the later latter prophets -- Samuel's institutional identity in the deuteronomistic history -- Ezekiel: a compromised prophet in reduced circumstance -- The Qur'anic David.