Reading the Latter Prophets Toward a New Canonical Criticism
by Conrad, Edgar W.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-06-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury T&T Clark
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Summary
Reading the Latter Prophets further develops Conrad's approach to reading prophetic books in his earlier research on Isaiah and the Twelve.
Author Biography
Edgar Conrad is Director of Postgraduate Studies in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland. This book further develops Conrad's approach to reading prophetic books in his earlier research on Isaiah and the Twelve.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Abbreviations | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Prophetic Books: Toward a Semiotics of Reading | p. 5 |
| Form Criticism and Beyond | p. 7 |
| Umberto Eco, Semiotics and Biblical Studies | p. 15 |
| Prophetic Books and the Model Reader | p. 23 |
| Prophetic Books and the Sender's Codes | p. 27 |
| Conclusion | p. 29 |
| Texts and History | p. 31 |
| Fitting the Bible into the Outside World | p. 32 |
| Reading Prophetic Books: Toward a New Form Criticism | p. 42 |
| Ordering Prophetic Books | p. 45 |
| Historical Criticism, Canonical Criticism and Order | p. 45 |
| The Canonizing Process and the Semiotics of Reading | p. 53 |
| Reading: Order and Unity | p. 60 |
| Opening Prohetic Books | p. 63 |
| Form and Prophetic Books | p. 64 |
| Superscriptions and Dates | p. 65 |
| Vision and Visions | p. 69 |
| Word and Words | p. 78 |
| The Beginning of Speaking | p. 86 |
| In the Hand | p. 88 |
| Summary and Conclusion | p. 89 |
| The Words of Amos and Jeremiah: Reading Jeremiah in the Light of Amos | p. 92 |
| Amos and Jeremiah: Prophets to the Nations | p. 92 |
| Jeremiah as a Prophet and a Warrior | p. 101 |
| Compiling the Words of a Warrior Prophet | p. 109 |
| From the Superscription to Preaching the Covenant (Jeremiah 1-11) | p. 111 |
| From the Covenant to the Cup of the Wine of Wrath (Jeremiah 12-25) | p. 122 |
| From the Cup of the Wine of Wrath to the End of the Words of Jeremiah (Jeremiah 25.1-51.64) | p. 138 |
| The Battle is Over | p. 156 |
| Summary and Conclusion | p. 158 |
| 'And It Happened' to Jonah and Ezekiel: Reading Ezekiel in the Light of Jonah | p. 161 |
| Jonah: Not Out of Sight and Presumably Not Out of Mind | p. 164 |
| Ezekiel and the [characters not reproducible] of God | p. 165 |
| Ezekiel and Prophesying | p. 171 |
| Ezekiel and False Vision | p. 176 |
| Compiling Ezekiel | p. 179 |
| Summary and Conclusion | p. 180 |
| The 'Vision' of Isaiah: Reading Isaiah in the Light of the Other Prophets of Vision | p. 182 |
| What is [characters not reproducible] | p. 183 |
| [characters not reproducible] Identity and Time | p. 184 |
| Narratives and Structure in Isaiah | p. 186 |
| Re-Reading the Book of Isaiah | p. 195 |
| The First Section of the Vision of Isaiah (Chapters 1-6) | p. 197 |
| Isaiah 1-6 Read Intertextually with Joel and Micah | p. 201 |
| The Second Section of the Vision of Isaiah (Chapters 7-35) | p. 206 |
| Isaiah 7-35 Read Intertextually with Obadiah and Nahum | p. 224 |
| The Third Section of the Vision of Isaiah (Chapters 36-66) | p. 225 |
| Isaiah 36-66 Read Intertextually with Habakkuk and Zephaniah | p. 241 |
| Summary and Conclusion | p. 242 |
| '[The] Beginning of Yahweh Spoke [was] with Hosea': Reading the Twelve in the Light of the Major Prophets | p. 243 |
| The Beginning of Yahweh Spoke | p. 246 |
| Divorcing Gomer (Israel) | p. 247 |
| What is Wrong with Israel? | p. 248 |
| From Joel to Zephaniah | p. 250 |
| The End of Prophecy and the Emergence of Messengers | p. 253 |
| Messengers in the Twelve | p. 255 |
| The Former Prophets | p. 256 |
| Seeing in Zechariah | p. 260 |
| My Messenger and the Concluding Oracles in Zechariah | p. 264 |
| Summary and Conclusion | p. 266 |
| Conclusion | p. 268 |
| Bibliography | p. 273 |
| Index of references | p. 277 |
| Index of authors | p. 288 |
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