The Hebrew Prophets Visionaries of the Ancient World
The prophets of the Ancient world were mystics whose words have transcended the ages. In this collection, Biblical scholars look at passages from the writings of the period, from Isaiah's portrayal of the suffering Messiah to Daniel's dream of the Ancient
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The Lion Classic Bible Series Genesis: The Book of Beginnings Stories from the Old Testament: Volume I Stories from the Old Testament: Volume II The Book of job: Why Do the Innocent Suffer? The Psalms: Ancient Poetry of the Spirit The Song of Solomon: Love Poetry of the Spirit Sayings of the Wise: The Legacy of King Solomon The Hebrew Prophets: Visionaries of the Ancient World The Great Sayings of jesus: Proverbs, Parables and Prayers The Gospel of Stjohn: The Story of the Son of God The New Testament Epistles: Early Christian Wisdom Revelation: The Apocalypse of Stjohn
THE HEBREW PROPHETS Visionaries of the Ancient World
Foreword by Desmond Tutu Introduction by Lawrence Boadt
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Copyright © 1998 Lion Publishing Arrangement and abridgement copyright © 1998 Uon Publishing Published by lion Publishing plc Sandy Lane West, Oxford, England ISBN 978-0-312-22076-1 ISBN 978-1-137-05169-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-05169-1 First edition 1998 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 All rights reserved A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Typeset in 10/12 Berkeley Oldstyle
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The introduction has been reprinted from Reading the Old Testament by Lawrence Boadt © 1984 by The Missionary Society of St Paul the Apostle in the State of New York. Used by permission of Paulist Press. The text of The Hebrew Prophets in Literature' has been selected from A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature, edited by David Lyle Jeffrey, copyright © 1992 by permission ofWm B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. The abridged text of Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Lamentations, Obadiah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Joel and Daniel is taken from the Authorized Version of the Bible (The King James Bible), the rights in which are vested in the Crown, by permission of the Crown's Patentee, Cambridge University Press. MargaretAvison, 'Then', has been reproduced from sunblue (1978). Published by Lancelot Press: page 29. Anthony Hecht, 'Pig', has been reproduced from The Hard Hours published by Oxford University Press, 1967, by permission of Oxford University Press: page 30. Ogden Nash, 'Laments for a Dying Language 3', has been reproduced from
I wouldn't have missed it (1975): page 40.
Contents
Foreword
7
Introduction
9
The Rise of Prophecy
9
The Writing Prophets
12
Collecting and Editing the Prophets' Words
13
The Hebrew Prophets in Literature
17
Quotations and Images
18
Prophets before the Exile Amos
53
Hosea
65
First Isaiah Micah Zephaniah Nahum Habbakkuk Jeremiah
73 97 103 107 109 115
Prophets during the Exile Ezekiel Lamentations
49
137 153
135
Obadiah
161 165
Second Isaiah
Prophets after the Exile
175
177 Zechariah 179 Haggai
Third Isaiah Malachi
187 199
203 Daniel 211 Joel
Index of Primary Sources
219
Foreword
Some people have thought that the prophets of Israel were a band of soothsayers, something like the Delphic oracles of ancient Greece. They would then be the son of person one would consult if one hoped
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