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The Elusive Prophet

Author : Johannes de Moor
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496254
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Elusive Prophet written by Johannes de Moor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Israelite prophets as historical persons, as literary characters and as anonymous artists. Whereas modern methods of literary analysis have brought the artistic qualities of the books of the Prophets increasingly into focus during the past century, various modes of deconstruction have made the historical prophets themselves an ever more elusive phenomenon. Passages in the Old Testament describing their work and experiences are not read as biography anymore, but as literary fiction intended to picture the prophets as heroes of faith. The real ‘prophets’ were the anonymous artists who were responsible for the final editing of the legacy of the historical prophets and who often used the authority of their predecessors to promulgate their own theological views. This volume brings together studies about this theme by members of the British and Dutch societies for Old Testament study. Attempts to recover some of the biographical data and authentic experiences of the prophets alternate with penetrating analyses of the theological depth and stylistic virtuosity of the prophetic books.The volume will be particularly useful to all those interested in the interpretation of the prophetic books of the Old Testament.

Elusive Prophet

Author : Steven J. Zipperstein
Publisher : Halban Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781870015547
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Elusive Prophet written by Steven J. Zipperstein and published by Halban Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ahad Ha'am Elusive Prophet

Author : Steven J Zipperstein
Publisher : Halban Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1905559526
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Ahad Ha'am Elusive Prophet written by Steven J Zipperstein and published by Halban Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive biography of the guiding intellectual presence - and chief internal critic - of Zionism, during the movement's formative years between the 1880s and the 1920s. Ahad Ha'am ('One of the People') was the pen name of Asher Ginzberg (1856-1927), a Russian Jew whose life intersected nearly every important trend and current in contemporary Jewry. His influence extended to figures as varied as the scholar of mysticism Gershom Scholem, the Hebrew poet Hayyim Nahman Bialik, and the historian Simon Dubnow. Theodor Herzl may have been the political leader of the Zionist movement, but Ahad Ha'am exerted a rare, perhaps unequalled, authority within Jewish culture through his writings. Ahad Ha'am was a Hebrew essayist of extraordinary knowledge and skill, a public intellectual who spoke with refreshing (and also, according to many, exasperating) candour on every controversial issue of the day. He was the first Zionist to call attention to the issue of Palestinian Arabs. He was a critic of the use of aggression as a tool in advancing Jewish nationalism and a foe of clericalism in Jewish public life. His analysis of the prehistory of Israeli political culture was incisive and prescient. Steven J. Zipperstein offers all those interested in contemporary Jewry, in Zionism, and in the ambiguities of modern nationalism a wide-ranging, perceptive reassessment of Ahad Ha'am's life against the back-drop of his contentious political world. This influential figure comes to life in a penetrating and engaging examination of his relations with his father, with Herzl, and with his devotees and opponents alike. Zipperstein explores the tensions of a man continually torn between sublimation and self-revelation, between detachment and deep commitment to his people, between irony and lyricism, between the inspiration of his study and the excitement of the streets. As a Zionist intellectual, Ahad Ha'am rejected both xenophobia and assimilation, seeking for the Jews a usable past and a plausible future.

The Performative Nature and Function of Isaiah 40-55

Author : Jim W. Adams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567025821
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book The Performative Nature and Function of Isaiah 40-55 written by Jim W. Adams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents the basic philosophical concepts of speech act theory in order to accurately implement them alongside other interpretive tools.

The Elusive Presence

Author : Samuel Terrien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Elusive Presence written by Samuel Terrien and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Composition and Redaction of the Book of Amos

Author : Tchavdar S. Hadjiev
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110212722
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Composition and Redaction of the Book of Amos written by Tchavdar S. Hadjiev and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Oxford dissertation offers a fresh redactional analysis of the Book of Amos. It starts with a critical survey of existing approaches and an examination of the methodological issues involved and proceeds with a detailed exegetical analysis of the prophetic text which forms the basis for the redactional conclusions. It steers a middle course between extreme conservative treatments which trace all the material back to the prophet Amos and more radical sceptical approaches which attribute most of the prophetic oracles to the work of later redactors. The composition of the book began with two collections: the Polemical scroll written not long after the end of Amos’ ministry and the Repentance scroll composed shortly before 722 BC. The Repentance scroll was reworked in Judah towards the end of the 8th century BC and the two scrolls were combined to form a single work sometime during the 7th century BC. The Book underwent only one redaction during the exilic period which sought to actualise its message in a new historical context. The study pays special attention to the literary structure, aim and probable historical circumstances of the various collections which gradually evolved into the present Book of Amos and seeks to show how the prophetic message lived on and spoke to the various communities which preserved and transmitted it.

A Prophet Like Moses

Author : Jeffrey Stackert
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199336458
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book A Prophet Like Moses written by Jeffrey Stackert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeffrey Stackert addresses two of the oldest and most persistent problems in biblical studies: the relationship between prophecy and law in the Hebrew Bible and the utility of the Documentary Hypothesis for understanding Israelite religion. These topics have in many ways dominated pentateuchal studies and the investigation of Israelite religion since the nineteenth century, culminating in Julius Wellhausen's influential Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel. Setting his inquiry against this backdrop while drawing on and extending recent developments in pentateuchal theory, Stackert tackles the subject through an investigation of the different presentations of Mosaic prophecy in the four Torah sources. His book shows that these texts contain a rich and longstanding debate over prophecy, its relation to law, and its place in Israelite religion. With this argument, A Prophet Like Moses demonstrates a new role for the Documentary Hypothesis in discussions of Israelite religion. It also provides an opportunity for critical reflection on the history of the field of biblical studies. Stackert concludes with an argument for the importance of situating biblical studies and the study of ancient Israelite religion within the larger field of religious studies rather than treating them solely or even primarily as theological disciplines.

Prophets, Priests, and Promises

Author : Gary N. Knoppers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004444890
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Prophets, Priests, and Promises written by Gary N. Knoppers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents collected essays of Gary N. Knoppers (1956–2018) on the historical books of the Hebrew Bible, among them seven thoroughly revised and eight newly published ones. An introduction by H.G.M. Williamson acknowledges their significance for Knoppers’ oeuvre.

Isaiah among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets

Author : Matthijs de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047422619
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Isaiah among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets by : Matthijs de Jong

Download or read book Isaiah among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets written by Matthijs de Jong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comparison between the earliest parts of the book of Isaiah and the Assyrian prophecies, this book maintains that ancient Israelite prophecy, of which Isaiah was an exponent, was much in conformity with ancient Near Eastern prophecy in general.

Prophetic Divination

Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110467763
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Prophetic Divination written by Martti Nissinen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prophecy was a wide-spread phenomenon in the ancient world - not only in ancient Israel but in the whole Eastern Mediterranean cultural sphere. This is demonstrated by documents from the ancient Near East, that have been the object of Martti Nissinen’s research for more than twenty years. Nissinen's studies have had a formative influence on the study of the prophetic phenomenon. The present volume presents a selection of thirty-one essays, bringing together essential aspects of prophetic divination in the ancient Near East. The first section of the volume discusses prophecy from theoretical perspectives. The second sections contains studies on prophecy in texts from Mari and Assyria and other cuneiform sources. The third section discusses biblical prophecy in its ancient Near Eastern context, while the fourth section focuses on prophets and prophecy in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Even prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls is discussed in the fifth section. The articles are essential reading for anyone studying ancient prophetic phenomenon.

Typology and Iconography in Donne, Herbert, and Milton

Author : Reuben Sánchez
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137397802
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis Typology and Iconography in Donne, Herbert, and Milton by : Reuben Sánchez

Download or read book Typology and Iconography in Donne, Herbert, and Milton written by Reuben Sánchez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the iconographic traditions of Jeremiah and of melancholy to show how Donne, Herbert, and Milton each fashions himself after the icons presented in Rembrandt's Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem , Sluter's sculpture of Jeremiah in the Well of Moses, and Michelangelo's fresco of Jeremiah in the Sistine Chapel.

Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets

Author : G MCCONVILLE
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
ISBN 13 : 178974038X
Total Pages : 1542 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets written by G MCCONVILLE and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 1542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writings of the prophets make up over a quarter of the Old Testament. But perhaps no other portion of the Old Testament is more misunderstood by readers today. For some, prophecy conjures up knotted enigmas, opaque oracles and terrifying visions of the future. For others it raises expectations of a plotted-out future to be reconstructed from disparate texts. And yet the prophets have imprinted the language of faith and imagination with some of its most sublime visions of the future - nations streaming to Zion, a lion lying with a lamb, and endlessly fruiting trees on the banks of a flowing river. We might view the prophets as stage directors for Israel's unfolding drama of redemption. Drawing inspiration from past acts in that drama and invoking fresh words from its divine author, these prophets speak a language of sinewed poetry, their words and images arresting the ear and detonating in the mind. For when Yahweh roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem, the pastures of the shepherds dry up, the crest of Carmel withers, and the prophetic word buffets those selling the needy for a pair of sandals. The Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets is the only reference book of its kind. Not only does it focus exclusively on the prophetic books; it also plumbs their imagery of mountains and wilderness, flora and fauna, temple and Zion. It maps and guides us through topics such as covenant and law, exile and deliverance, forgiveness and repentance, and the Day of the Lord. Here the nature of prophecy is searched out in its social, historical, literary and psychological dimensions as well as its synchronic spread of textual links and associations. And the formation of the prophetic books into their canonical collection, including the Book of the Twelve, is explored and weighed for its significance. Then too, contemporary approaches such as canonical criticism, conversation analysis, editorial/redaction criticism, feminist interpretation, literary approaches and rhetorical criticism are summed up and assayed. Even the afterlife of these great texts is explored in articles on the history of interpretation as well as on their impact in the New Testament.

The Priests in the Prophets

Author : Lester L. Grabbe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567401871
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book The Priests in the Prophets written by Lester L. Grabbe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since at least the 19th century Hebrew Bible scholarship has traditionally seen priests and prophets as natural opponents, with different social spheres and worldviews. In recent years several studies have started to question this perspective. The Priests in the Prophets examines how the priests are portrayed in the Latter Prophets and analyzes the relationship between priests and prophets. The contributors also provide insights into the place of priests, prophets, and some other religious specialists in Israelite and Judean society in pre-exilic and post-exilic times.

The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets

Author : Carolyn Sharp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199859566
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets written by Carolyn Sharp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latter Prophets--Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Book of the Twelve--comprise a fascinating collection of prophetic oracles, narratives, and vision reports from ancient Israel and Judah. Spanning centuries and showing evidence of compositional growth and editorial elaboration over time, these prophetic books offer an unparalleled view into the cultural norms, theological convictions, and political disputes of Israelite communities caught in the maelstrom of militarized conflicts with the empires of ancient Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia. Instructive for scholar and student alike, The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets features wide-ranging discussion of ancient Near Eastern social and cultic contexts; exploration of focused topics such as the persona of the prophet and the problem of violence in prophetic rhetoric; sophisticated historical and literary analysis of key prophetic texts; issues in reception history, from these texts' earliest reinterpretations at Qumran to Christian appropriations in contemporary homiletics; feminist, materialist, and postcolonial readings engaging the insights of influential contemporary theorists; and more. The diversity of interpretive approaches, clarity of presentation, and breadth of expertise represented here will make this Handbook indispensable for research and teaching on the Latter Prophets.

Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel

Author : John Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567601889
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel written by John Day and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major work re-examines prophecy and the prophets in ancient Israel, with essays ranging all the way from Israel's ancient Near Eastern background right up to the New Testament. The majority of essays concentrate on prophecy and the prophets in the Old Testament, which are approached from a remarkable number of different angles. Particular attention is paid to the following subjects: Prophecy amongst Israel's ancient Near East neighbours; female prophets in both Israel and the ancient Near East; Israelite prophecy in the light of sociological, anthropological and psychological approaches; Deuteronomy 18.9-22, the Prophets and Scripture; Elijah, Elisha and prophetic succession; the theology of Amos; Hosea and the Baal cult; the sign of Immanuel; the rewriting of Isaiah in Isaiah 28-31; Deutero-Isaiah and monotheism; Jeremiah and God; Aniconism and anthropomorphism in Ezekiel; Habakkuk's dialogue with God and the language of legal disputation; Zephaniah and the 'Book of the Twelve' hypothesis; Structure and meaning in Malachi; Prophecy and Psalmody; Prophecy in Chronicles; Prophecy in the New Testament.

Reading Prophetic Poetry

Author : Barbara Bakke Kaiser
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532662912
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Reading Prophetic Poetry written by Barbara Bakke Kaiser and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to guide students in religious or literary studies or other interested readers toward understanding and appreciation of biblical prophetic poetry. Each of the three sections of the book includes a chapter examining one of the literary features with brief examples from prophetic texts, followed by another chapter of applied criticism of a full prophetic poem (Joel 2 on parallelism, Jeremiah 4 on voice, and Isaiah 24 on design). Among the distinct features of the book are diagrams of parallel lines, promoting two-dimensional, “binocular” reading of the poems. Of all the literature of the Bible, prophetic poetry has probably been least accessible to the modern reader. Language is dense, images are obscure, and logical development of ideas seems almost inaccessible. Reading Prophetic Poetry seeks to help readers appreciate the luminous beauty of the language and the austere power and surprising relevance of the ideas in these relatively obscure biblical texts. It introduces an accessible approach to prophetic poetry which invites readers to turn to the biblical texts on their own with new ideas for appreciating the riches of these ancient poems.

Israel's Prophets and Israel's Past

Author : Brad E. Kelle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567122077
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Israel's Prophets and Israel's Past written by Brad E. Kelle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an inquiry into the complex relationship of the prophetic texts and Israelite history. Taken as a whole, the book provides a "round-table" discussion that examines the thesis that the study of prophetic literature (i.e., Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Twelve) and the history of Israel are best undertaken in interaction with one another. This topic appropriately honors John Hayes's long-standing scholarly contributions in prophetic interpretation and historical research, as well as his interest in the possibilities of the intersection of these two areas. The volume also promises to contribute to the body of knowledge about prophets and Israel's past in general by affording twenty-four historians and prophetic scholars the opportunity to explore their areas of interest in fresh ways while in dialogue with a central thesis. All twenty-four contributors have engaged John's ideas about prophets and/or history as students, colleagues, or in their research and publications. Thus, the question of what impact the fields of prophetic research and Israelite history can and should have on one another unites the articles. The book's individual parts, however, are contributions of historians and prophetic scholars who enter the discussion from their own perspectives and examine the possibilities and problems of the intersection of these two topics. The articles from historians will focus on questions about the usefulness of prophetic texts for reconstructing Israel's history, and will also branch out and address topics such as the social location of the prophets and the benefits of other ancient texts, as well as archaeology, to understanding the prophets. Scholars coming from the prophetic "side" will offer different perspectives on prophetic identity, experience, and rhetoric, and their possible correlations with historical contexts. These articles will engage broad issues such as how history may form the "context of prophets' thought" (to quote contributor J. Gordon McConville), and will explore specific texts and issues drawn from Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Amos, Zechariah, along with Daniel and Deuteronomy.