Constructs of prophecy in the former and latter prophets and other texts
By: edited by Lester L. Grabbe and Martti Nissinen
Contributors: Society of Biblical Literature. Prophetic Texts and Their Ancient Contexts Group
Series: Society of Biblical Literature ancient Near East monographs -- v. 4
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781589836006; 9781589835993
Subjects: Prophecies; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Congresses
Description: This collection of essays, arising from the meetings of the SBL's Prophetic Texts and Their Ancient Contexts Group, examines how prophecy has been constructed in biblical literature such as the Former Prophets, the Latter Prophets, Chronicles, and Daniel, and even in the Qur'an. Recognizing that these texts do not simply describe the prophetic phenomena but rather depict prophets according to various conventional categories or their own individual points of view, the essays analyze the way prophecy or prophets are portrayed in these writings to better understand how they were structured by their respective authors. -- Publisher
Notes: Proceedings of meetings of the Prophetic Texts and Their Ancient Contexts Group of the Society of Biblical Literature held in 2007 in Washington, D.C. and in 2008 in Boston, Mass.

Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and indexes.