Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East Essays in Honor of Herbert B. Huffmon

by John Kaltner; Louis Stulman

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 2004

Overview

Inspired Speech was originally published as a Festschrift to honor the work of Professor Herbert B. Huffmon, Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Drew University. Thirty-three of his colleagues and students contributed to the work, which explores various aspects of prophecy in ancient Israel and its neighboring cultures. The result is a volume which provides an excellent overview of the current state and future directions of scholarship on prophecy in the biblical world.

Essays Included:

• “Introduction to the Study of the History of the Religion of Israel,” by Frank Moore Cross
• “On unfsos in Isaiah 8:6,” by Marvin A. Sweeney
• “The Amorite Heritage in the West,” by George E. Mendenhall
• “What is Prophecy? An Ancient Near Eastern Perspective,” by Martti Nissinen
• “Current Issues in the Study of Old Testament Prophecy,” by Robert R. Wilson
• “The Lamenting Prophet and the Modern Self: On the Origins of Contemporary Readings of Jeremiah,” by Mary Chilton Callaway
• “Metaphor and Social Reality: Isaiah 23:17—18, Ezekiel 16:35—37 and Hosea 2:4—5,” by Peggy L. Day
• “Southern Mesopotamian Titles for Temple Personnel in the Mari Archives,” by Daniel E. Fleming
• “False Prophecy is True,” by David Noel Freedmana and Rebecca Frey
• “Esarhaddon, Sanduarri, and the Adon Papyrus,” by Alberto R. Green
• “Jeremiah as an Inspiration to the Poet of Job,” by Edward L. Greenstein
• “When the God of Israel 'Acts-Out' His Anger: On the Language of Divine Rejection in Biblical Literature,” by Baruch A. Levine
• “Recovering an Ancient Paronomasia in Zechariah 14:5,” by David Marcus
• “The Once and Future Lament: Micah 2:1—5 and the Prophetic Persona,” by Harry P. Nasuti
• “The Context, Text, and Logic of Isaiah 7:7—9,” by Martti Nissinen
• “Current Issues in the Study of Old Testament Prophecy,” by J.J. M. Roberts
• “The Eyes of Eli: An Essay in Motif Accretion,” by Jack M. Sasson
• From the Mouth of the Prophet: The Literary Fixation of Jeremiah's Prophecies in the Context of the Ancient Near East,” by Karel Van Der Toorn
• “The Metaphors of 'Canaanite' and 'Baal' in Hosea,” by Lyn M. Bechtel
• “What's in a Name? Cyrus and the Dating of Deutero-Isaiah,” by Milton Eng
• “What Did Elijah Do to His Mantle? The Hebrew Root GLM,” by John Kaltner
• “Word Event in Jeremiah: A Look at the Composition's 'Introductory Formulas',” by John I. Lawlor
• “Visions of Peace in Isaiah,” by David A. Leiter
• “'Yahweh Has Given these Three Kings into the Hand of Moab': A Socio-Literary Reading of 2 Kings 3,” by Jesse C. Long, Jr, and Mark Sneed
• “The Spiritual Journey of Jonah: From the Perspective of C.G. Jung's Analytical Psychology,” by Jongsoo Park
• “Harder than Flint, Faster than Eagles: Intensified Comparatives in the Latter Prophets,” by Eric A Seibert
• “Jeremiah as a Polyphonic Response to Suffering,” by Louis Stulman
• “The Royal Family in the Jeremiah Tradition,” by Alex Varughese
• “New Light on the Story of Achsah,” by William W. Hallo
• “Bathsheba's Silence (1 Kings 1:11—31),” by Michael S. Moore
• “A Quest for the Divine and.. .the Tourist Dollar: The Dilemma Faced by Contemporary Dervish Orderss'',” by Mary-Louise Mussell
• “Dissonant Pieties: John Calvin and the Prayer Psalms of the Psalter,” by Paul A. Riemann

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Product Details

• Title: Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East Essays in Honor of Herbert B. Huffmon
• Editors: John Kaliner and Louis Stulman
• Series: Studies on the Prophets
• Publisher: T&T Clark International
• Publication Date: 2004
• Pages: 443

About the Editors

John Kaltner is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College, Memphis, TN.

Louis Stulman is Professor of Religious Studies, University of Findlay.