"The Place is Too Small for Us": The Israelite Prophets in Recent Scholarship

Forsideomslag
R. P. Gordon
Eisenbrauns, 1995 - 638 sider
"The title of this volume is, of course, taken from 2 Kgs 6:1, where the prophetic group about Elisha point out that their accomodation is too cramped. It seemed an apt comment on the capacity of any proposed volume to house and adequate representation of the work that has recently been done on Israelite prophecy. To this I now have to add the all-too-ironic confession that the so-called pre-classical prophets (including Elisha and his colleagues) could not be accomodated in the present volume. Let no one complain about being misled by the subtitle when the title is so honest ... there are thirty-six items of varying legnth, and they divide almost equally between journal articles and excerpts from volumes (some of thes of composite authorship). Naturally, they represent one individual's selection from within his personal reading, and this itself accounts for only a fraction of the vast scholarly output on the prophets, whether since 1875 or since 1975 ... It will be apparent at several places in the volume that I take with great seriousness the study of Near Eastern (non-Israelite) prophecy as background to the Israelite phenomenon, so that the first short section (The Near Eastern Background") was unavoidable."--Editor's preface.

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Indhold

R R Wilson
332
Ernest W Nicholson
345
Thomas W Overholt
354
R P Carroll
377
Joseph Blenkinsopp
392
The Developing Tradition
413
Walther Zimmerli
419
Ronald E Clements
443

Walter Houston
133
iii Prophecy and Poetry
154
iv Rhetoric
166
Fox
176
v Metaphor
191
John T Willis
205
Michael Fishbane
223
John Day
230
viii Drama
247
David F Payne
263
Prophecy and Society
273
Petersen
279
A Graeme Auld
289
Burke O Long
308
H G M Williamson
453
P R Ackroyd
478
Otto Kaiser
495
Brevard S Childs
513
Prophecy after the Prophets
523
F F Bruce
539
Christopher T Begg
547
John F A Sawyer
563
Future Directions
577
Robert P Gordon
600
Index of Authorities
607
Index of Scripture
619
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