The Book of the Twelve and the new form criticism
By: edited by Mark J. Boda, Michael H. Floyd, and Colin M. Toffelmire
Series: Ancient Near East monographs -- number 10; Ancient Near East monographs -- v. 10.
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Atlanta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781628370607; 9781628370621; 9781628370614
Subjects: Bibel; Introductions; Bible; Form Criticism; Formgeschichte
Description: "Contributors to this volume explore the theoretical issues at stake in recent changes in form criticism and the practical outcomes of applying the results of these theoretical shifts to the Book of the Twelve. This volume combines self-conscious methodological reflection with practical examination of specific texts in an effort to demonstrate the practical consequences of theoretical decisions and the value of certain methodological stances"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Michael H. Floyd; title: New form criticism and beyond : the historicity of prophetic literature revisited / Michael H. Floyd; title: "I will make her like a desert" : intertextual allusion and feminine and agricultural metaphors in the Book of the Twelve / Beth M. Stovell; title: Reading the "prophetic lawsuit" genre in the Persian period / James M. Trotter; title: The vision report genre between form-criticism and redaction-criticism : an investigation of Amos 7-9 and Zechariah 1-6 / Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer; title: Harrowing woes and comforting promises in the Book of the Twelve / Carol J. Dempsey; title: Twelve (and more) anonyms : a biblical book without authors / Erhard S. Gerstenberger; title: Form and eschatology in the Book of the Twelve prophets / Marvin A. Sweeney; title: Where are the prophets in the Book of the Twelve? / James D. Nogalski; title: A deafening call to silence : the rhetorical "end" of human address to the deity in the Book of the Twelve / Mark J. Boda; title: The book of Amos as "prophetic fiction" : describing the genre of a written work that reinvigorates older oral speech forms / Tim Bulkeley; title: Sitz im what? Context and the prophetic book of Obadiah / Colin M. Toffelmire; title: The non-Israelite nations in Zephaniah : conceptual coherence and the relationship of the parts to the whole / D.C. Timmer; title: Form criticism in Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi : from oral sayings to literature / Paul L. Redditt; title: A new form-critical approach to Zechariah's crowning of the high priest Joshua and the identity of "Shoot" (Zechariah 6:9-15) / Anthony R. Petterson; title: Goals and processes of the "new" form criticism / Martin J. Buss; title: New form criticism and the prophetic literature : the unfinished agenda / Robert R. Wilson.