Explore the ancient context of prophecy and prophetic figures

This collection of essays examines the construction of prophecy in the Former and Latter Prophets, Chronicles, Daniel, and even in the Quran. This unique anthology recognizes that these texts do not simply describe the prophetic phenomena but rather depict prophets according to various conventional categories or their own individual points of view. Each essay analyzes how these writings portray prophecy or prophets to better understand how the respective authors structured their writings.

Features

• Introduction and twelve essays cover prophecy in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran


• Essays examine the relationship between the prophets and the cult, oral pronouncements and written collections, and divination, prophecy, and apocalypticism


• Additional essays raise questions about the prophetic persona and examine the prophets in hermeneutical perspective

Lester Grabbe is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull. He has authored and edited numerous works on the history of ancient Israel or the history of Jews/Judaism in the Second Temple period. He is the founder of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology and editor of T&T Clark International’s Library of Second Temple Studies series.

Martti Nissinen is Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Helsinki. He has authored and edited many works on prophecy and gender issues in biblical and ancient Near Eastern texts. He is editor-in-chief of the Finnish Journal of Theology.

"Students of prophetic texts or texts that portray prophets will appreciate the amount of data treated in Constructs of Prophecy."
— Elizabeth Currier, Trinity Journal