Forming Prophetic Literature: Essays on Isaiah and the Twelve in Honor of John D.W. WattsJames W. Watts, Paul R. House These essays are written in honour of John D.W. Watts, formerly Professor of Old Testament at Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky and Old Testament editor of the Word Biblical Commentary, well known for his contributions, especially to scholarship on the prophetic books. Accordingly, the essays here 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. With a special focus 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. |
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4QXIIª allusions appear approach argues Assyria Biblical blessing book of Amos book of Hosea book of Isaiah book of Joel book of Jonah book of Malachi book of Nahum Book of Obadiah canonical catchwords century chapters Codex commentary composition context covenant cultic Deuteronomistic divine Edom Elijah example exilic genre God's Habakkuk Haggai Hebrew Bible hymn interpretation intertextual Israel Jerusalem Joel Judah judgement Literary Precursors liturgical LORD manuscript markers Masoretic messenger Micah Minor Prophets Moab Moses motif narrative nations Nogalski Obad Old Testament oracles passages post-exilic Press priests prophecy prophetic books prophetic literature psalm question readers Redactional Processes redactor reference rhetorical role scholars scroll Second Isaiah speeches structure suggests superscriptions temple textual thematic theme Theology Third Isaiah tion Torah tradition twelve prophetic unity verses vision Watts Watts's words Yahweh Zech Zechariah Zechariah 9-14 Zeph Zephaniah Zion