Thus Says the Lord Essays on the Former and Later Prophets in Honor of Robert R.Wilson

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INTRODUCTORY CELEBRATION OF ROBERT R. WILSON John Ahn and Stephen L. Cook Part I FORMER PROPHETS JOSHUA SON OF NUN: PRESENTATION OF A PROPHET Stephen B. Chapman RELIGION IN THE HEROIC SPIRIT: THEMES IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES Baruch A. Levine WHAT IS PROLOGUE IS PAST: COMPOSING ISRAELITE IDENTITY IN JUDGES 5 Mark S. Smith JUDGES, KINGSHIP, AND POLITICAL ETHICS: A CHALLENGE TO THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM Susan Niditch Part II BETWEEN THE FORMER AND LATTER PROPHETS PROPHECY AND THEODICY John Barton AUTHORITY TO EDIFY: VERIFICATION OF BIBLICAL TRUTH IN WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH ` s PROPHETS OF ISRAEL Warner M. Bailey THE POETICS OF BIBLICAL PROPHECY: POINT OF VIEW AND POINT OF STANDING IN THE PROPHETIC BOOKS Harry P. Nasuti 99 THE POETRY OF CREATION Robert B. Robinson 114 "DAUGHTER ZiON" F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp 125 Part III LATTER PROPHETS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE WORLD IN THE HEBREW BIBLE John J. Collins 137 PROPHETIC ASSOCIATIONS Christopher R. Seitz 156 (RE)INSCRIBING POWER THROUGH TORAH TEACHING: RHETORICAL PEDAGOGY IN THE SERVANT SONGS OF DEUTERO-ISAIAH Carolyn J. Sharp 167 JEREMIAH AND THE LEVITICAL PRIESTS OF ANATHOTH S. Dean McBride, Jr. 179 REMEMBERING THE PROPHETS David L. Petersen 197 PUTTING THE MOTHER BACK IN THE CENTER: METAPHOR AND MULTIVALENCE IN EZEKIEL 19 Corrine Carvalho 208 THE SPEECHLESS SUPPRESSION OF GRIEF IN EZEKIEL 24:15-27: THE DEATH OF EZEKIEL`S WIFE AND THE PROPHET`S ABNORMAL RESPONSE Stephen L. Cook 222 PORTRAYING PROPHETIC EXPERIENCE AND TRADITION IN EZEKIEL D. Nathan Phirmey "BUT IF NOT..." WHAfl THE SPEECH OF THE YOUTHS IN DANIEL 3 AND A (THEO)LOGICAL PROBLEM Roy L. Heller 244 MYTH AND TRUTH IN SOCIO-HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF ANCIENT SOCIETIES: HOSEA 4:11-14 AS A TEST CASE Christl M. Maier 256 THE SOCL\L LOCATION(S) OF AMOS: AMOS 1:3-2:16 Gene M. Tucker 273 JONAH AND THE USES OF PARODY William W. Hallo 285 ZEPHANIAH, A DISCIPLE OF ISAIAH? John Ahn 292