Forming prophetic literature
Subtitle: essays on Isaiah and the Twelve in honor of John D.W. Watts
By: edited by James W. Watts and Paul R. House.
Contributors: Watts, James W. 1960-; Watts, John D. W.; House, Paul R., 1958-
Series: Journal for the study of the Old Testament.; 235
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Watts, John D. W.; Bible. O.T. Isaiah -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Bible. O.T. Minor Prophets -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Description: These essays, collected in honor of John D. Watts, address the literary, redactional and canonical questions posed by the Hebrew Bible's prophetic literature. The prophetic books have defied easy classification according to genre or facile explanation of their historical development.

Focusing on the books of Isaiah and of the Twelve Prophets, the nature and formation of prophecy as literature is probed from a variety of methodological standpoints, including textual criticism, synchronic literary analysis, tradition history and redaction criticism.
Notes: "Bibliography of works by John D.W. Watts": p. [303]-305.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"Many of the articles in this book were originally presented in 1994 and 1995 to the Society of Biblical Literature's Consultation on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve"--p. [7].