"The place is too small for us" : the Israelite prophets in recent scholarship / edited by Robert P. Gordon.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A story of two paradigm shifts / Robert P. Gordon -- Part 1: Ancient Near Eastern Background -- Ancient Near Eastern patterns in prophetic literature / Moshe Weinfeld -- Prophecy at Mari / Abraham Malamat -- Part 2: The message of the prophets -- Ethics in Isaiah of Jerusalem / John Barton -- Oracles of salvation / C. Westermann -- Part 3: The art of prophecy -- The function of prophetic drama / W. David Stacey -- What did the prophets think they were doing? : speech acts and prophetic discourse in the Old Testament / Walter Houston -- Were the prophets poets? / Stephen A. Geller -- Language as event / D.J.A. Clines -- The rhetoric of Ezekiel's vision of the valley of the bones / Michael V. Fox -- A maker of metaphors : Ezekiel's oracles against Tyre / Carol A. Newsom -- Dialogue between prophet and audience as a rhetorical device in the book of Jeremiah / John T. Willis -- The priestly blessing and its aggadic reuse / Michael Fishbane -- Inner-biblical interpretation in the prophets / John Day -- Festal drama / J.H. Eaton -- Dialogue in Zephaniah / P.R. House -- Jonah from the perspective of its audience / David F. Payne -- Part 4: Prophecy and society -- Ecstasy and role enactment / David L. Petersen -- Prophets through the looking glass : between writings and Moses / A. Graeme Auld -- Social dimensions of prophetic conflict / Burke O. Long -- Interpreting Israel's religion : an anthropological perspective on the problem of false prophecy / R.R. Wilson -- Prophecy and covenant / Ernest W. Nicholson -- Prophecy in history : the social reality of intermediation / Thomas W. Overholt -- Ancient Israelite prophecy and dissonance theory / R.P. Carroll -- The servants of the Lord in third Isaiah : profile of a pietistic group in the Persian epoch / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- Part 5: The developing tradition -- From prophetic work to prophetic book / Walther Zimmerli -- Prophets, editors, and tradition / Ronald E. Clements -- The prophet and the plumb-line : a redaction-critical study of Amos 7 / H.G.M. Williamson -- Isaiah 36-39 : structure and function / P.R. Ackroyd -- Literary criticism and Tendenz-criticism : methodological reflections on the exegesis of Isaiah / Otto Kaiser -- The canonical shape of the prophetic literature / Brevard S. Childs -- Part 6: Prophecy after the prophets -- The end of prophecy : no players without a program / Thomas W. Overholt -- Prophetic interpretation in the Septuagint / F.F. Bruce -- The "classical prophets" in Josephus' Antiquities / Christopher T. Begg -- Prophecy and interpretation / John F.A. Sawyer -- Pt. 7: Future directions -- Contemporary issues / Werner H. Schmidt -- The prophets : are we heading for a paradigm switch? / Ferdinand E. Deist -- Present trends and future directions / Rogert P. Gordon.