Prophets, Prophecy, and Ancient Israelite Historiography

Published by Penn State University Press 2013

Prophets, Prophecy, and Ancient Israelite Historiography

Edited by: Mark J. Boda and Lissa Wray Beal

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575066899

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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 prophecy in the academic study of the Hebrew Bible, and the concern of the contributors is to close that gap, to expose the close relationship between these two traditions in the literature of the Hebrew Bible.

The first section of the book explores prophecy and prophets in ancient Israelite and Jewish historiographic books (Torah, Deuteronomistic History, Chronicles, Ezra–Nehemiah, Second Temple Jewish historiography). The second section surveys historiography in Israelite and Jewish prophetic books (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Book of the Twelve, Daniel, 1 Enoch). The contributors engage diverse methodological perspectives in these studies, the goal first being to show the role that the prophets played within the great Hebrew historiographic works and, second, to demonstrate the role that historiography plays within the great Hebrew prophetic works; this makes it clear that the influence is bidirectional.

Prophets, Prophecy, and Ancient Israelite Historiography will be of value for advanced students and scholars working on historiographic and prophetic materials in the ancient Israelite and Jewish traditions, featuring the best of research and analysis and interacting with many major ancient literary traditions of historiography and prophecy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part 1 Prophets and Prophecy in Israelite Historiographic Books
“Face to Face”: Moses as Prophet in Exodus 11:1–12:28 Bernon Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
The Shaping of a Prophet: Joshua in the Deuteronomistic History Gordon Oeste Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Recycling Heaven’s Words: Receiving and Retrieving Divine Revelation in the Historiography of Judges Mark Boda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Samuel Agonistes: A Conflicted Prophet’s Resistance to God and Contribution to the Failure of Israel’s First King J. Middleton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Prophecy as Prediction in Biblical Historiography John Seters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Jeroboam and the Prophets in 1 Kings 11–14: Prophetic Word for Two Kingdoms Lissa Beal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Presumptuous Prophets Participating in a Deuteronomic Debate K. Noll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Prophecy Influencing History: Dialogism in the Chronicler’s Ahaz Narrative Paul Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chronicles and Its Reshaping of Memories of Monarchic Period Prophets: Some Observations Ehud Zvi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Deus ex Machina and Plot Construction in Ezra 1–6 Lisbeth Fried Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Is the Governor Also among the Prophets? Parsing the Purposes of Jeremiah in the Memory of Nehemiah David Shepherd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
The Use and Non-Use of Prophetic Literature in Hellenistic Jewish Historiography Andrew Pitts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Part 2 Historiography in Israelite Prophetic Books
The Poetics of History and the Prophecy of Deutero-Isaiah Danielle Duperreault Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Personal Missives and National History: The Relationship between Jeremiah 29 and 36 Mark Leuchter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Ezekiel’s Perspective of Israel’s History: Selective Revisionism? Brian Peterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
The Ordering of the Twelve as Israel’s Historiography Grace Ko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
The “Exilic” Prophecy of Daniel 7: Does It Reflect Late Pre-Maccabean or Early Hellenistic Historiography? Ralph Korner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
(Re)Visionary History: Historiography and Religious Identity in the Animal Apocalypse Colin Toffelmire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
Index of Scripture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	382

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Pages
- Main content: 412

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Published: January 18, 2013
ISBN: 9781575066899