Prophets, Prophecy, and Prophetic Texts in Second Temple Judaism

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Michael Floyd, Robert D. Haak
A&C Black, 2006 M02 28 - 324 páginas
The emergence of prophetic literature in Israel, of the sort represented in the Latter Prophets section of the Jewish biblical canon, is often described as the natural goal or outcome of the historical development of Israelite prophecy. However, similar prophetic traditions in similar surrounding cultures did not produce anything truly analogous to the biblical prophetic books. There is thus no inherent reason for Israelite prophecy to have developed in such a way. This book alternatively proposes that the production of this kind of prophetic literature was conditioned by the particular circumstances of the early Second Temple period, when most of it was written. To understand how this particular kind of prophetic literature flourished at this particular time, and then gave way to prophetic literature of a very different sort (i.e., apocalyptic), the phenomenon of prophetic intermediation will be considered in relation to three aspects of historical change: the world view in terms of which divine agency was imagined, the demographics of the religious community, and the sociological domain and function of the scribal elite.

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PHILOS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND THE PERSISTENCE OF PROPHECY
5
Martti Nissinen 26
26
A THEOLOGICAL CONCEPT
42
THE TRANSITION FROM THE SPOKEN
63
THE ROLE OF PROPHECY AND PROPHETS IN THE CHRONICLERS WORLD
80
INVOKING THE PROPHETS IN ZECHARIAH AND BEN SIRA
120
PROPHETS AND PROPHECY IN THE BOOK OF BEN SIRA
135
PROPHETS AND PROPHECY IN JOSEPHUS
210
THUS SPAKE THE PROPHET JOSEPHUS
240
THE PRODUCTION OF PROPHETIC BOOKS IN
276
Index of References
298
Index of Authors
319
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Michael Floyd is Professor at El Centro de Estudios Teológicos, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.


Robert D. Haak is Professor of Religion, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois.

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