Series PrefaceEditor’s PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroductionRobert P. Gordon - A Story of Two Paradigm ShiftsPart 1: The Near Eastern BackgroundIntroductionMoshe Weinfeld - Ancient Near Eastern Patterns in Prophetic LiteratureAbraham Malamat - Prophecy at MariPart 2: The Message of the ProphetsIntroductionJohn Barton - Ethics in Isaiah of JerusalemC. Westermann - Oracles of SalvationPart 3: The Art of ProphecyIntroductionW. David Stacey - The Function of Prophetic DramaWalter Houston - What Did the Prophets Think They Were Doing? Speech Acts and Prophetic Discourse in the Old TestamentStephen A. Geller - Were the Prophets Poets?D. J. A. Clines - Language as EventMichael V. Fox - The Rhetoric of Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of the BonesCarol A. Newsom - A Maker of Metaphors: Ezekiel’s Oracles against TyreJohn T. Willis - Dialogue between Prophet and Audience as a Rhetorical Device in the Book of JeremiahMichael Fishbane - The Priestly Blessing and Its Aggadic ReuseJohn Day - Inner-biblical Interpretation in the ProphetsJ. H. Eaton - Festal DramaP. R. House - Dialogue in ZephaniahDavid F. Payne - Jonah from the Perspective of Its AudiencePart 4: Prophecy and SocietyIntroductionDavid L. Petersen - Ecstasy and Role EnactmentA. Graeme Auld - Prophets through the Looking Glass: Between Writings and MosesBurke O. Long - Social Dimensions of Prophetic ConflictR. R. Wilson - Interpreting Israel’s Religion: An Anthropological Perspective on the Problem of False ProphecyErnest W. Nicholson - Prophecy and CovenantThomas W. Overholt - Prophecy in History: The Social Reality of IntermediationR. P. Carroll - Ancient Israelite Prophecy and Dissonance TheoryJoseph Blenkinsopp - The ‘Servants of the Lord’ in Third Isaiah: Profile of a Pietistic Group in the Persian EpochPart 5: The Developing TraditionIntroductionWalther Zimmerli - From Prophetic Word to Prophetic BookRonald E. Clements - Prophets, Editors, and TraditionH. G. M. Williamson - The Prophet and the Plumb-Line: A Redaction-Critical Study of Amos 7P. R. Ackroyd - Isaiah 36-39: Structure and FunctionOtto Kaiser - Literary Criticism and Tendez-Criticism: Methodological Reflections on the Exegesis of IsaiahBrevard S. Childs - The Canonical Shape of the Prophetic LiteraturePart 6: Prophecy after the ProphetsIntroductionThomas W. Overholt - The End of Prophecy: No Players without a ProgramF. F. Bruce - Prophetic Interpretation in the SeptuagintChristopher T. Begg - The ‘Classical Prophets’ in Josephus’ AntiquitiesJohn F. A. Sawyer - Prophecy and InterpretationPart 7: Future DirectionsWerner H. Schmidt - Contemporary IssuesFerdinand E. Deist - The Prophets: Are We Heading for a Paradigm Switch?Robert P. Gordon - Present Trends and Future DirectionsIndexesIndex of AuthoritiesIndex of Scripture