The changing face of form criticism for the twenty-first century / edited by Marvin A. Sweeney and Ehud Ben Zvi. [print]

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction Marvin A. Sweeney and Ehud Ben Zvi -- part 1. Theoretical reflection. Form criticism's future Antony F. Campbell -- Formgeschichte-- a misleading category? : some critical remarks Erhard Blum -- Recent form criticism revisited in an age of reader response Roy F. Melugin -- Form criticism, wisdom, and Psalms 111-112 Raymond C. Van Leeuwen -- Form criticism in dialogue with other criticisms : building the multidimensional structures of texts and concepts Hyun Chul Paul Kim -- part 2. The Bible and ancient Near Eastern literature. Inscriptional evidence an the question of genre Martin Rosel -- Fear not : a study on an ancient Near Eastern phrase Martti Nissinen -- Ezekiel saw what he said he saw : genres, forms, and the vision of Ezekiel I Margaret S. Odell -- Israelite genres in their ancient Near Eastern context Tremper Longman III --

part 3. Narrative literature. Kaleidoscopic patterns and the shaping of experience Sue Boorer -- The exclusion of Moses from the Promised Land : a conceptual approach Won Lee -- The form-critical problem of the so-called Deuteronomistic history Thomas Romer -- Nehemiah 9 and the problematic concept of context (Sitz im Leben) / Bob Becking -- part 4. Prophetic literature. The basic forms of prophetic literature David L. Petersen -- The prophetic book : a key form of prophetic literature Ehud Ben Zvi -- Basic trends in the form-critical study of prophetic texts Michael H. Floyd -- Toward form criticism as an explication of human life : divine speech as a form of self-transcendence Martin J. Buss -- Rhetorical criticism and beyond in Second Isaiah Patricia K. Tull -- Zechariah's debate with Isaiah Marvin A. Sweeney.

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