Table of Contents

1. The Production of Prophecy: Constructing Prophecy and Prophets in Yehud. An Introduction and an Invitation, Ehud Ben Zvi 2. Towards an Integrative Study of the Production of Authoritative Books in Ancient Israel, Ehud Ben Zvi 3. From Prophets to Prophetic Books: The Fixing of the Divine Word, Diana V. Edelman 4. Why Do We Know about Amos? Philip R. Davies 5. The Concept of Prophetic Books and its Historical Setting, Ehud Ben Zvi 6. Public Recitation of Prophetical Books? The Case for the First Edition of Deutero-Isaiah (Isa 40:1-52-12), Rainer Albertz 7. Persian-Empire Spirituality and the Genesis of Prophetic Books, Erhard S. Gerstenberger 8. Kings among the Prophets, Axel Knauf 9. Jonah Among the Twelve in the MT: The Triumph of Torah over Prophecy, Diana V. Edelman 10. The Formation of the Book of Jeremiah as a Supplement to the so-called Deuteronomistic History, Thomas Römer 11. Jeremiah MT: Reflections of a Discourse on Prophecy in the Persian Period,Rannfrid I. Thelle

About the Author

Diana V. Edelman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield. Her research has focused on the King Saul in history and tradition, Israelite religion during the time of the monarchy, and now is centering on the emergence of Judaism in the Persian period with the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. She is the author of The Origins of the 'Second' TemplePersian Imperial Policy and the Rebuilding of Jerusalem (Equinox, 2005) and King Saul in the Historiography of Judah (Sheffield Academic Press, 1991) and editor of The Fabric of History: Text, Artifact and Israel's Past (Sheffield Academic Press, 1991), You Shall not Abhor an Edomite for He is your Brother: Edom and Seir in History and Tradition (Scholars Press, 1995) and The Triumph of Elohim: From Yahwisms to Judaisms (Kok Pharos 1995; reprinted by Eerdmans).Ehud Ben Zvi is a professor (History & Classics, and Religious Studies) at the University of Alberta. A former president of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, his publications include, History, Literature and Theology in the Book of Chronicles (2006); Hosea (2005); Signs of Jonah: Reading and Rereading in Ancient Yehud (2003); Micah (2000) and A Historical-Critical Study of The Book of Obadiah (1996) as well as many articles on the historical books of the Hebrew Bible in which he explores the ways in which ancient Israelites construed their past and the significance of these images of the past for them. He is also a co-author of Readings in Biblical Hebrew. An Intermediate Textbook (1993). He serves as the general editor of the Journal of Hebrew Scriptures.

Reviews

"An important contribution to the history of biblical interpretation." - The Catholic Biblical Quarterly