Prophecy and the New Testament / Comparing prophetic sources : principles and a test case / Christopher Rowland. Predictive and prophetic literature : can Neferti help us read the Bible? / Stuart Weeks -- Female prophets in the ancient near east / Jonathan Stökl -- Specific themes. Prophetesses in the Hebrew Bible / H.G.M. Williamson -- Interpersonal forgiveness and the Hebrew prophets / David J. Reimer -- Sociological, anthropological and psychological perspectives. Exit the oppressed peasant? Rethinking the background of social criticism in the prophets / Walter J. Houston -- Shaman, preacher, or spirit medium? The Israelite prophet in the light of anthropological models / Lester L. Grabbe -- Prophets and psychological interpretation / Paul M. Joyce -- Prophecy and the prophets in specific biblical books. Deuteronomy 18.9-22, the prophets and the scripture / Ernest Nicholson -- 'A prophet instead of you' (1 Kings 19.16) : Elijah, Elisha and prophetic succession / David T. Lamb -- Theology of Amos / John Barton -- Hosea and the Baal cult / John Day -- Signs of Immanuel / John J. Collins -- Rewriting Isaiah : the case of Isaiah 28-31 / Reinhard G. Kratz -- Deutero - Isaiah and monotheism / Hywell Clifford -- 'Now you see me, now you don't!' Jeremiah and god / Philip S. Johnston -- Exclusively Yahweh : Aniconism and anthropomorphism in Ezekiel / Jill Middlemas -- Zephaniah and the 'Book of the twelve' hypothesis / Tchavdar S. Hadjiev -- 'Law is paralysed' (Habakkuk 1.4) : Habakkuk's dialogue with god and the language of legal disputation / Kevin J. Cathcart -- Structure and meaning in the Book of Malachi / Elie Assis -- New wine and old wineskins : three approaches to prophecy and psalmody / Susan Gillingham -- Democratizing revelation? Prophets, seers and visionaries in chronicles / Gary N. Knoppers -- Prophecy and the New Testament / Christopher Rowland.
Summary:
Consists of twenty-three essays which were originally delivered as papers to the Oxford Old Testament Seminar between January 2006 and October 2008, subsequently revised and often expanded.
Series:
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 531
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