"The place is too small for us" : the Israelite prophets in recent scholarship /
edited by Robert P. Gordon.
- xviii, 638 pages.
- Sources for biblical and theological study ; 5. .
- Sources for biblical and theological study ; 5. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
A story of two paradigm shifts / Ancient Near Eastern patterns in prophetic literature / Prophecy at Mari / Ethics in Isaiah of Jerusalem / Oracles of salvation / The function of prophetic drama / What did the prophets think they were doing? : speech acts and prophetic discourse in the Old Testament / Were the prophets poets? / Language as event / The rhetoric of Ezekiel's vision of the valley of the bones / A maker of metaphors : Ezekiel's oracles against Tyre / Dialogue between prophet and audience as a rhetorical device in the book of Jeremiah / The priestly blessing and its aggadic reuse / Inner-biblical interpretation in the prophets / Festal drama / Dialogue in Zephaniah / Jonah from the perspective of its audience / Ecstasy and role enactment / Prophets through the looking glass : between writings and Moses / Social dimensions of prophetic conflict / Interpreting Israel's religion : an anthropological perspective on the problem of false prophecy / Prophecy and covenant / Prophecy in history : the social reality of intermediation / Ancient Israelite prophecy and dissonance theory / The servants of the Lord in third Isaiah : profile of a pietistic group in the Persian epoch / From prophetic work to prophetic book / Prophets, editors, and tradition / The prophet and the plumb-line : a redaction-critical study of Amos 7 / Isaiah 36-39 : structure and function / Literary criticism and Tendenz-criticism : methodological reflections on the exegesis of Isaiah / The canonical shape of the prophetic literature / Part 6: Prophecy after the prophets -- The end of prophecy : no players without a program / Prophetic interpretation in the Septuagint / The "classical prophets" in Josephus' Antiquities / Prophecy and interpretation / Pt. 7: Future directions -- Contemporary issues / The prophets : are we heading for a paradigm switch? / Present trends and future directions / Robert P. Gordon -- Moshe Weinfeld -- Abraham Malamat -- John Barton -- C. Westermann -- W. David Stacey -- Walter Houston -- Stephen A. Geller -- D.J.A. Clines -- Michael V. Fox -- Carol A. Newsom -- John T. Willis -- Michael Fishbane -- John Day -- J.H. Eaton -- P.R. House -- David F. Payne -- David L. Petersen -- A. Graeme Auld -- Burke O. Long -- R.R. Wilson -- Ernest W. Nicholson -- Thomas W. Overholt -- R.P. Carroll -- Joseph Blenkinsopp -- Walther Zimmerli -- Ronald E. Clements -- H.G.M. Williamson -- P.R. Ackroyd -- Otto Kaiser -- Brevard S. Childs -- Thomas W. Overholt -- F.F. Bruce -- Christopher T. Begg -- John F.A. Sawyer -- Werner H. Schmidt -- Ferdinand E. Deist -- Rogert P. Gordon. Part 1: Ancient Near Eastern Background -- Part 2: The message of the prophets -- Part 3: The art of prophecy -- Part 4: Prophecy and society -- Part 5: The developing tradition --