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Introduction to the Prophets

Paul L. Redditt

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.

© 2008 Paul L. Redditt

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Published 2008 by

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

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P.O. Box 163, Cambridge CB3 9PU U.K.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Redditt, Paul L.

Introduction to the Prophets / Paul L. Redditt.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN 978-0-8028-2896-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)

1. Bible. O.T. Prophets—Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title.

BS1505.52.R43 2008

224´.061—dc22

2008016713

www.eerdmans.com

Contents

abbreviations

preface

introduction

1. What Is a Prophet?

I. The Major Prophets

2. Approach to the Major Prophets

3. Isaiah 1–39

4. Isaiah 40–66

5. Jeremiah

6. Lamentations and Other Deutero-Jeremianic Literature

Lamentations

The Book of Baruch

The Letter of Jeremiah

7. Ezekiel

8. Daniel

II. The Minor Prophets

9. The Book of the Twelve

10. Hosea, Joel, Amos

Hosea

Joel

Amos

11. Obadiah, Jonah, Micah

Obadiah

Jonah

Micah

12. Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah

Nahum

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

13. Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

Haggai

Zechariah 1–8

Zechariah 9–14

Malachi

Conclusion

glossary

indexes

Authors

Names

Subjects

Selected Biblical and Ancient Author References

Hebrew and Greek Words

Abbreviations

Books and Periodicals

AB Anchor Bible

ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary, ed. David Noel Freedman. 6 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

ANET Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, ed. James B. Pritchard, 3rd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.

AOTC Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries

ATD Das Alte Testament Deutsch

AUSS Andrews University Seminary Studies

BDB Brown, Francis, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament. Oxford, 1907.

BEATAJ Beiträge zur Erforschung des Alten Testaments und des Antiken Judentum

BHK Biblia Hebraica, ed. Rudolf Kittel. 3rd ed. Stuttgart, 1937.

BHS Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia

BKAT Biblischer Kommentar, Altes Testament

BZAW Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft

CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly

CC Continental Commentaries

CurBS Currents in Research: Biblical Studies

DDD Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, ed. Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, and Pieter W. Van der Horst. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1999.

EDB Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, ed. David Noel Freedman, Allen C. Myers, and Astrid B. Beck. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000.

FOTL The Forms of the Old Testament Literature

FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments

GBS Guides to Biblical Scholarship

HAR Hebrew Annual Review

HDR Harvard Dissertations in Religion

IB The Interpreter’s Bible, ed. George Arthur Buttrick. 12 vols. New York: Abingdon, 1951–57.

ISBE International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, ed. Geoffrey W. Bromiley. 4 vols. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979–1988....

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About Introduction to the Prophets

Writing in a conversational rather than a scholarly tone, Paul Redditt assumes little or no prior knowledge of the Old Testament as he presents and introduces the Major and Minor Prophets in the canonical order of the English Bible.

The chapters of Redditt’s Introduction to the Prophets discuss the place of each book in the canon; the literary setting of each book; their structure, integrity, and authorship; the main genre(s) in each; special features of each book; basic emphases of each book; and problems—theological, literary, or historical—raised by a study of the book. Among other things, Redditt demonstrates that the prophets were both “foretellers” and “forthtellers,” and he argues that the Old Testament prophets developed the concept of monotheism. Each chapter ends with questions for further reflection. Concluding the volume are a helpful glossary and several indexes.

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