Prophets, prophecy, and ancient Israelite historiography
By: edited by Mark J. Boda and Lissa M. Wray Beal
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781575062570
Subjects: Historiography; Bible; Judaism; Jews; Criticism, interpretation; Altes Testament; Congresses; Prophecy; History; Prophetie; Geschichtsschreibung
Notes: "This volume found its impetus in the Ancient Historiography Seminar / Groupe de Travail sur l'Historiographie Ancienne at the 2009 Annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies / Societe canadienne des Etudes bibliques, where several of the essays were originally presented."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part 1.; title: Prophets and prophecy in Israelite historiographic books.; title: Face to face: Moses as prophet in Exodus 11:1-12:28  -- Brenon Lee; title: Shaping of a prophet: Joshua in the Deuteronomistic history  -- Gordon Oeste; title: Recycling heaven's word: receiving and retrieving divine revelation in the historiography of Judges  -- Mark J. Boda; title: Samuel agonistes: a conflicted prophet's resistance to God and contribution to the failure of Israel's first King  -- J. Richard Middleton; title: Prophecy as prediction in Biblical historiography  -- John Van Seters; title: Jeroboam and the prophets in I Kings 11-14: Prophetic word for two kingdoms  -- Lissa M. Wray Beal; title: Presumptuous prophets participating in a Deuteronomic debate  -- K.L. Noll; title: Prophecy influencing history: dialogism in the Chronicler's Ahaz narrative  -- Paul S. Evans; title: Chronicles and its reshaping of memories of Monarchic period prophets: some observations  -- Ehud Ben Zvi -- Deus ex Machina and plot construction in Ezra 1-6 / -- Lisbeth S. Fried; title: Is the governor also among the prophets? Parsing the purposes of Jeremiah in the memory of Nehemiah  -- David Shepherd; title: The use and non-use of prophetic literature in Hellenistic Jewish historiography  -- Andrew W. Pitts -- Part 2.; title: Historiography in Israelite Prophetic books.; title: Poetics of history and the prophecy of Deutero-Isaiah  -- Danielle Duperreault; title: Personal missives and National history: the relationship between Jeremiah 29 and 36  -- Mark Leuchter; title: Ezekiel's perspective of Israel's history: selective revisionism  -- Brian Peterson; title: The ordering of the twelve as Israel's historiography  -- Grace Ko; title: Exilic prophecy of Daniel 7 : does it reflect Late Pre-Maccabean or Early Hellenistic historiography  -- Ralph J. Korner; title: (Re) Visionary history: historiography and religious identity in the animal apocalypse -- Colin M. Toffelmire.