Prophets, prophecy, and ancient Israelite historiography
Prophets and prophecy in Israelite historiographic books -- Face to face: Moses as prophet in Exodus 11:1-12:28 Brenon Lee -- Shaping of a prophet: Joshua in the Deuteronomistic history Gordon Oeste -- Recycling heaven's word: receiving and retrieving divine revelation in the historiography of...
| Summary: | Prophets and prophecy in Israelite historiographic books -- Face to face: Moses as prophet in Exodus 11:1-12:28 Brenon Lee -- Shaping of a prophet: Joshua in the Deuteronomistic history Gordon Oeste -- Recycling heaven's word: receiving and retrieving divine revelation in the historiography of Judges Mark J. Boda -- Samuel agonistes: a conflicted prophet's resistance to God and contribution to the failure of Israel's first King J. Richard Middleton -- Prophecy as prediction in Biblical historiography John Van Seters -- Jeroboam and the prophets in I Kings 11-14: Prophetic word for two kingdoms Lissa M. Wray Beal -- Presumptuous prophets participating in a Deuteronomic debate K.L. Noll -- Prophecy influencing history: dialogism in the Chronicler's Ahaz narrative Paul S. Evans -- Chronicles and its reshaping of memories of Monarchic period prophets: some observations Ehud Ben Zvi -- Deus ex Machina and plot construction in Ezra 1-6 Lisbeth S. Fried -- Is the governor also among the prophets? Parsing the purposes of Jeremiah in the memory of Nehemiah David Shepherd -- The use and non-use of prophetic literature in Hellenistic Jewish historiography Andrew W. Pitts -- Historiography in Israelite Prophetic books -- Poetics of history and the prophecy of Deutero-Isaiah Danielle Duperreault -- Personal missives and National history: the relationship between Jeremiah 29 and 36 Mark Leuchter -- Ezekiel's perspective of Israel's history: selective revisionism Brian Peterson -- The ordering of the twelve as Israel's historiography Grace Ko -- Exilic prophecy of Daniel 7 : does it reflect Late Pre-Maccabean or Early Hellenistic historiography Ralph J. Korner -- (Re) Visionary history: historiography and religious identity in the animal apocalypse Colin M. Toffelmire |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes "This volume found its impetus in the Ancient Historiography Seminar / Groupe de Travail sur l'Historiographie Ancienne at the 2009 Annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies / Societe canadienne des Etudes bibliques, where several of the essays were originally presented.". - Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 1575062577 |