Sweeney, Marvin A.
Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature

Sweeney untersucht die Rolle der literarischen Form und der Intertextualität bei der Analyse prophetischer und apokalyptischer Texte des Alten Testaments. 19 zum Teil zuvor unveröffentlichte Essays gliedern sich in fünf Kapitel: Jesaja, Jeremia, Hesekiel, Zwölfprophetenbuch und apokalyptische Literatur. Contents: The book of Isaiah as prophetic Torah. - On multiple settings in the book of Isaiah. - On "ûmesôs" in Isaiah 8:6. - Prophetic Exegesis in Isaiah 65-66. - The masoretic and septuagint versions of the book of Jeremiah in synchronic and diachronic perspective. - The truth in true and false prophecy. - Structure and redaction in Jeremiah 2-6. - Jeremiah 30-31 and King Josiah's program of national restoration and religious reform. - Ezekiel. Zadokite priest and visionary prophet of the exile. - The destruction of Jerusalem as purification in Ezekiel 8-11. - The assertion of divine power in Ezekiel 33:21-33:29. - Sequence and interpretation in the Book of the Twelve. - The place and function of Joel in the Book of the Twelve. - Micah's debate with Isaiah. - Zechariah's debate with Isaiah. - The priesthood and the proto-apocalyptic reading of prophetic and pentateuchal texts. - The end of eschatology in Daniel? Theological and socio-political ramifications of the changing contexts of interpretation. - Davidic typology in the forty year war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness. - Pardes revisited once again. A reassessment of the rabbinic legend concerning the Four who entered Pardes. XIII,295 Seiten, Leinen (Forschungen zum Alten Testament; Band 45/Mohr Siebeck 2005) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear