Reading Prophetic Books

Form, Intertextuality, and Reception in Prophetic and Post-Biblical Literature

by Marvin A. Sweeney

Book cover: Reading Prophetic Books

Extent: 424 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Literary Studies

Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament

Series volume number: 89

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2014)

ISBN: 9783161523748

6.57 x 9.13 inches

Price: $218.00

In stock

In this volume, Marvin A. Sweeney builds upon his former work “Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature” (FAT 45, 2005). He introduces further studies that take up several key issues, including the reading of prophetic books in their final literary form and the significance of textual versions for this reading. He also observes the intertextual relationships between the prophets and other works of biblical and post-biblical literature, and the reception of the prophetic books. Following an introduction that lays out methodological perspective, it includes the title essay for the volume, “Reading Prophetic Books,” as well as selections of papers devoted to Isaiah, Jeremiah in both its Masoretic and Septuagint forms, Ezekiel, individual books from the Twelve Prophets, and the reading of biblical texts in Qumran, Rabbinic, and Targumic literature.


In this volume, Marvin A. Sweeney builds upon his former work Form and Intertextuality in Prophetic and Apocalyptic Literature (FAT 45, 2005). He introduces further studies that take up several key issues, including the reading of prophetic books in their final literary form and the significance of textual versions for this reading. He also observes the intertextual relationships between the prophets and other works of biblical and post-biblical literature, and the reception of the prophetic books. Following an introduction that lays out methodological perspective, it includes the title essay for the volume, Reading Prophetic Books, as well as selections of papers devoted to Isaiah, Jeremiah in both its Masoretic and Septuagint forms, Ezekiel, individual books from the Twelve Prophets, and the reading of biblical texts in Qumran, Rabbinic, and Targumic literature.

  • By (author) Marvin A Sweeney