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This volume offers a contemporary look at the study of Isaiah and the 12 Minor Prophets. Seitz explores fundamental questions of hermeneutics, the canon, and the Prophets as a bridge between the Testaments. In the first section, Seitz delivers an insightful account of the history of the genre, looking at the impact of modern critical methods and the influence of Gerhard von Rad. In particular,...

at the start of volume 2 he gives account of both the logic and the limitations of making a break where he does (I discuss both the break and the interior organization and rationale of the two volumes in some detail below). In volume 2 we have an account of the prophetic literature, and the entire volume is devoted to a sustained and trenchant evaluation of this canonical reality, hence the subtitle: “The Theology of Israel’s Prophetic Traditions.” Yet this description could be misleading, for the
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