about them. It is credible to think that the prophets are not simply eruptive individual persons. They are, rather, situated in varying ways in an on-going interpretive tradition that is rooted in the old covenant of Sinai. As we have seen, however, that tradition has now been transposed into the ideology of urban Jerusalem to serve as legitimation for the power structure of the urban elites. In that context, these prophetic voices offer a perspective that has not been co-opted by or contained within