"The place is too small for us" : the Israelite prophets in recent scholarship / edited by Robert P. Gordon. [print]

Introduction

Part 1: The Near Eastern Background

Part 2: The Message of the Prophets

Part 3: The Art of Prophecy

Part 4: Prophecy and Society

Part 5: The Developing Tradition

Part 6: Prophecy after the Prophets

Part 7: Future Directions

A story of two paradigm shifts Robert P. Gordon.

Ancient Near Eastern patterns in prophetic literature Moshe Weinfeld Prophecy at Mari Abraham Malamat.

Ethics in Isaiah of Jerusalem John Barton Oracles of salvation C. Westermann.

The function of prophetic drama W. David Stacey What did the prophets think they were doing? Speech acts and prophetic discourse in the Old Testament Walter Houston Were the prophets poets? / Stephen A. Geller Language as event D.J.A. Clines The rhetoric of Ezekiel's vision of the valley of the bones Michael V. Fox A maker of metaphors : Ezekiel's oracles against Tyre Carol A. Newsom Dialogue between prophet and audience as a rhetorical device in the book of Jeremiah John T. Willis The priestly blessing and its aggadic reuse Michael Fishbane Inner-biblical interpretation in the prophets John Day Festal drama J.H. Eaton Dialogue in Zephaniah P.R. House Jonah from the perspective of its audience David F. Payne.

Ecstasy and role enactment David L. Petersen Prophets through the looking glass : between writings and Moses A. Graeme Auld Social dimensions of prophetic conflict Burke O. Long Interpreting Israel's religion : an anthropological perspective on the problem of false prophecy R.R. Wilson Prophecy and covenant Ernest W. Nicholson Prophecy in history : the social reality of intermediation Thomas W. Overholt Ancient Israelite prophecy and dissonance theory R.P. Carroll The servants of the Lord in third Isaiah : profile of a pietistic group in the Persian epoch Joseph Blenkinsopp.

From prophetic work to prophetic book Walther Zimmerli Prophets, editors, and tradition Ronald E. Clements The prophet and the plumb-line : a redaction-critical study of Amos 7 H.G.M. Williamson Isaiah 36-39 : structure and function P.R. Ackroyd Literary criticism and Tendenz-criticism : methodological reflections on the exegesis of Isaiah Otto Kaiser The canonical shape of the prophetic literature Brevard S. Childs.

The end of prophecy : no players without a program Thomas W. Overholt Prophetic interpretation in the Septuagint F.F. Bruce The "classical prophets" in Josephus' Antiquities Christopher T. Begg Prophecy and interpretation John F.A. Sawyer.

Contemporary issues Werner H. Schmidt The prophets : are we heading for a paradigm switch? / Ferdinand E. Deist Present trends and future directions Rogert P. Gordon.

"The title of this volume is, of course, taken from 2 Kgs 6:1, where the prophetic group about Elisha point out that their accomodation is too cramped. It seemed an apt comment on the capacity of any proposed volume to house and adequate representation of the work that has recently been done on Israelite prophecy. To this I now have to add the all-too-ironic confession that the so-called pre-classical prophets (including Elisha and his colleagues) could not be accomodated in the present volume. Let no one complain about being misled by the subtitle when the title is so honest ... there are thirty-six items of varying legnth, and they divide almost equally between journal articles and excerpts from volumes (some of thes of composite authorship). Naturally, they represent one individual's selection from within his personal reading, and this itself accounts for only a fraction of the vast scholarly output on the prophets, whether since 1875 or since 1975 ... It will be apparent at several places in the volume that I take with great seriousness the study of Near Eastern (non-Israelite) prophecy as background to the Israelite phenomenon, so that the first short section (The Near Eastern Background") was unavoidable."--Editor's preface.

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