Two Sides of a Coin Juxtaposing Views on Interpreting the Book of the Twelve / the Twelve Prophetic Books

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction: The Book of the Twelve¿Fact and Fiction? by Thomas Romer... 1 One Book and Twelve Books: The Nature of the Redactional Work and the Implications of Cultic Source Material in the Book of the Twelve by James D. Nogalski..... 11 Recent Redactional Investigations on the Book of the Twelve......... 12 Progress Toward a Consensus .........................12 Doubts about the Task......................16 The Nature of the Redactional Work in the Book of the Twelve......... 22 Form and Function of the Redactional Work......................30 The Role of a Writing`s Sit% im Buck Can Affect Its Form .....30 The Functions of the Levites in Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah...........40 Is the Twelve Hypothesis Likely from an Ancient Readers` Perspective? by Ehud Ben Zvi Introduction.........................47 Why Readings are Crucial and How to Approximate the Way in which the Present Prophetic Books were Read by their Primary Rereaderships in Yehud.........................54 Main Arguments Pointing at a Historical Reading of Fifteen Prophetic Books in Yehud: Data and Implications............................... 64 One Scroll and Readings........................................................64 Main Textually Inscribed Markers Signaling the Intended Readers How to Read¿Part I¿ Superscriptions.......................... 72 Main Textually Inscribed Markers Signaling the Intended Readers How to Read¿Part II Endings and Individualized Voices...................77 Additional Markers¿Genre .................................................79 The Central, Connective Weakness of the TH from an ancient Readers` Perspective, or Why the Twelve Prophetic Books Were Not Read as a the "Book of the Twelve".........................................80 Excursus.............................................................. 84 Back to Methodology: Practical, Concrete Differences Between TH Approaches and the One Advanced Here In Terms of Questions They Raise and How they Shape and Interpret Evidence ...................................85 Practical Differences Concerning Recourse to Memory Studies. Practical Differences Concerning Openings Endings ............................................86 Practical Differences¿Sequential vs. Branched Modes of Reading and the matter of General Web-like Constructions of the Repertoire and Knowledge of Ancient Literati..........................................90 Practical Differences¿The Question of "Main Themes"....................................... 94