Prophecy and Foreign Nations: Aspects of the Role of the 'Nations' in the Books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel

ISBN-13: 9783161615962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Hannes Bezzel;Uwe Becker;Matthijs de Jong

Opis

This volume contains papers read at the EABS / SBL International meetings 2016 in Leuven, 2017 in Berlin, and 2018 in Helsinki. Contrary and complementary to a trend in contemporary research on prophetic literature to focus on questions concerning the origins of a prophetic theology of judgment, the research group addressed the seemingly stereotypic corpora of oracles concerning foreign nations. In diachronic as well as synchronic approaches to the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, the contributors ask for the tension between standardisation in the corpus propheticum on the one side and maintaining or even creating a specific prophetic profile on the other. In so doing, the prophetic books may appear in a new light, both with respect to their literary-historical genesis and to a theological reading of their "final forms".

O autorze

Born 1975; 2007 Dr. theol. (Göttingen); 2014 Habilitation (Jena); since 2015 Professor of Old Testament at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Born 1961; 1989 Dr, theol. (Bonn); 1996 Habilitation (Göttingen); since 2003 Professor of Old Testament at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. Born 1977; 2006 PhD (Leiden, The Netherlands); 2006 bible translator and biblical scholar at the Netherlands Bible Society; since 2016 head of translation and exegesis at the Netherlands Bible Society.