Prophecy is only one of several such forms [of religious life in Israel], and it seems that its fate is to be always necessary but never itself sufficient. Concluding the survey with Jonah, which contains a shrewd critique of prophecy, is meant to suggest precisely that, and to recall the unsolved and perhaps insoluble problems endemic to prophecy we will be noting at different points throughout the history.12 Good on his promise, Blenkinsopp concludes his history of prophecy in the now-familiar