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Prophets, prophecy, and ancient Israelite historiography / edited by Mark J. Boda and Lissa M. Wray Beal.

Contributor(s): Boda, Mark J | Wray Beal, Lissa M
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2013Description: xii, 400 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781575062570 (hardback : alk. paper); 1575062577 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Prophecy -- Judaism -- History -- To 1500 -- Congresses | Judaism -- Historiography -- Congresses | Jews -- History -- To 70 A.D. -- Historiography -- Congresses | Bible. Prophets -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses | Bible. Old Testament -- Historiography -- CongressesDDC classification: 221.9/50072 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
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 words : 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

"The 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."--page viii.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part 1: 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 words : 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 -- Part 2: 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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