Inspired speech : prophecy in the ancient Near East : essays in honor of Herbert B. Huffmon
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Inspired speech : prophecy in the ancient Near East : essays in honor of Herbert B. Huffmon
（Journal for the study of the Old Testament : supplement series, 378）
T&T Clark International, c2004
- Other Title
-
Inspired speech : prophecy in the ancient Near East : essays in honour of Herbert B. Huffmon
Available at 6 libraries
Note
"Herbert Bardwell Huffmon: a bibliography": p. [401]-403
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. Contributors: Suzanne Richard, Frank Moore Cross, George E. Mendenhall, Martti Nissinen, Robert R. Wilson, Mary Chilton Callaway, Peggy L. Day, Daniel E. Fleming, David Noel Freedman, Rebecca Frey, Alberto R. Green, Edward L. Greenstein, Baruch A. Levine, David Marcus, Harry P. Nasuti, J. J. M. Roberts, Jack M. Sasson, Karel van der Toorn, Lyn M. Bechtel, Milton Eng, John Kaltner, John I. Lawlor, David A. Leiter, Jesse C. Long, Jr, Mark Sneed, Jongsoo Park, Eric A. Seibert, Louis Stulman, Alex Varughese, William W. Hallo, Michael S. Moore, Mary-Louise Mussell, Paul A. Riemann
Table of Contents
- Part 1: Introductory Essays
- Richard: Herbert Baldwin Huffmon: A Reflection
- Cross: Introduction to the Study of the History of the Religion of Israel
- Mendenhall: The Amorite Heritage in the West
- Nissenen: What is Prophecy? An Ancient Near Eastern Perspective
- Wilson: Current Issues in the Study of Old Testament Prophecy
- Part 2: Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East
- Bechtel: The Metaphors of 'Canaanite' and 'Baal' in Hosea Callaway: The Lamenting Prophet and the Modern Self: on the Origins of Contemporary Readings of Jeremiah
- Day: Metaphor and Social Reality: Isaiah 23.17-18, Ezekiel 16.35-37 and Hosea 2.4-5
- Eng: What's in a Name? Cyrus and the Dating of Deutero-Isaiah
- Fleming: Southern Mesopotamian Titles for Temple Personnel in the Mari Archives
- Freeman & Frey: False Prophecy is True Green: Esarhaddon, Sanduarri, and The Adon Papyrus
- Greenstein: Jeremiah as an Inspiration to the Prophet Job
- Kaltner: What Did Elijah Do To His Mantle? The Hebrew Root GLM
- Lawlor: Word Event in Jeremiah: A Look at the Composition's 'Introductory Formulas'
- Leiter: Visions of Peace in Isaiah
- Levine: When the God of Israel 'Acts-Out' His Anger: On the Language of Divine Rejection in Biblical Literature
- Long & Sneed: 'Yahweh Has Given These Three Kings into the Hand of Moab': A Socio-Literary Reading of 2 Kings 3
- Marcus: Recovering an Ancient Paronomasia in Zechariah 14.5
- Nasuti: The Once and Future Lament: Micah 2:1-5 and the Prophetic Persona
- Park: The Spiritual Journey of Jonah: From the Perspective of C. G. Jung's Analytical Psychology Roberts: The Context, Text, and Logic of Isa. 7.7-9
- Sasson: The Eyes of Eli: An Essay in Motif Accretion
- Seibert: Harder than Flint, Faster than Eagles: Intensified Comparatives in the Latter Prophets Stulman: Jeremiah as a Polyphonic Response to Suffering
- Van der Toorn: From the Mouth of the Prophet: The Literary Fixation of Jeremiah's Prophecies in the Context of the Ancient Near East
- Varughese: The Royal Family in the Jeremiah Tradition
- Part 3: Other Studies
- Hallo: New Light on the Story of Achsah
- Moore: Bathsheba's Silence (1 Kgs. 1.11-31)
- Mussell: A Quest for the Divine and...the Tourist Dollar: the Dilemma Faced by Contemporary Dervish Orders
- Huffmon Bibliography
by "Nielsen BookData"