Reading the Latter Prophets Toward a New Canonical Criticism

, by Conrad, Edgar W.

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Copyright: 6/1/2004

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Reading the Latter Prophets further develops Conrad's approach to reading prophetic books in his earlier research on Isaiah and the Twelve.

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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Reading the Latter Prophets Toward a New Canonical Criticism

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