Prophets, Prophecy, and Ancient Israelite Historiography /

Prophets, Prophecy, and Ancient Israelite Historiography / / ed. by Lissa Wray Beal, Mark J. Boda.

The 18 essays by members of the Canadian Society for Biblical Studies published in this volume showcase the work of leading authorities on ancient Israelite and Jewish historiography as it intersects with the phenomenon of prophecy. A deep divide exists between the traditions of historiography and p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
HerausgeberIn:
Beal, Lissa Wray,
Boda, Mark J.,
MitwirkendeR:
Beal, Lissa,
Boda, Mark,
Duperreault, Danielle,
Evans, Paul,
Fried, Lisbeth,
Ko, Grace,
Korner, Ralph,
Lee, Bernon,
Leuchter, Mark,
Middleton, J.,
Noll, K.,
Oeste, Gordon,
Peterson, Brian,
Pitts, Andrew,
Seters, John,
Shepherd, David,
Toffelmire, Colin,
Zvi, Ehud,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2013
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (412 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Prophets and Prophecy in Israelite Historiographic Books
  • "Face to Face": Moses as Prophet in Exodus 11:1-12:28
  • The Shaping of a Prophet: Joshua in the Deuteronomistic History
  • Recycling Heaven's Words: Receiving and Retrieving Divine Revelation in the Historiography of Judges
  • Samuel Agonistes: A Conflicted Prophet's Resistance to God and Contribution to the Failure of Israel's First King
  • Prophecy as Prediction in Biblical Historiography
  • Jeroboam and the Prophets in 1 Kings 11-14: Prophetic Word for Two Kingdoms
  • Presumptuous Prophets Participating in a Deuteronomic Debate
  • Prophecy Influencing History: Dialogism in the Chronicler's Ahaz Narrative
  • Chronicles and Its Reshaping of Memories of Monarchic Period Prophets: Some Observations
  • Deus ex Machina and Plot Construction in Ezra 1-6
  • Is the Governor Also among the Prophets? Parsing the Purposes of Jeremiah in the Memory of Nehemiah
  • The Use and Non-Use of Prophetic Literature in Hellenistic Jewish Historiography
  • Part 2 Historiography in Israelite Prophetic Books
  • The Poetics of History and the Prophecy of Deutero-Isaiah
  • Personal Missives and National History: The Relationship between Jeremiah 29 and 36
  • Ezekiel's Perspective of Israel's History: Selective Revisionism?
  • The Ordering of the Twelve as Israel's Historiography
  • The "Exilic" Prophecy of Daniel 7: Does It Reflect Late Pre-Maccabean or Early Hellenistic Historiography?
  • (Re)Visionary History: Historiography and Religious Identity in the Animal Apocalypse
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Scripture

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