Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East Essays in Honor of Herbert B. Huffmon Book

Contents Abbreviations List of Contibutors Part I: Introductory/ Background Essays
Herbert Bardweell Huffmon: A Reflection, Suxanne Richard Introduction to the Study of the History of the Religion of Israel, Frank Moore Cross The Amorite Heritage in the West, George E. Mendenhall What is Prophecy? An Anicent Near Eastern Perspective, Martti Nissinen Current Issues in the Study of Old Testament Prophecy, Robert R. Wilson
Part II: Prophect in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
The Lamenting Prophet and the Modern Self: On the Origins of Contemporary Readings of Jeremiah, Mary Chilton Callaway Metaphor and Social Reality: Isaiah 23.17-18, Ezekiel 16.35-37 and Hosea 2.4-5, Peggy L. Day Southern Mesopotamian Titles for Temple Personnel in the Mari Archives, Daniel E. Fleming False Prophecy is True, David Noel Freedman and Rebecca Frey Ershaddon, Sanduarri, and the Adon Papyrus, Alberto R. Green Jeremiah as an Inspiration to the Poet Job, Edward L. Greenstein When the God of Israel 'Acts-Out' His Anger: On the Lanuage of Divine Rejection in Biblical Literature, Baruch A. Levine Recovering an Ancient Paranomasia in Zechariah 14.5, David Marcus The Once and Future Lament: Micah 2.1-5 and the Prophetic Persona, Harry P. Nasuti The Context, Text, and Logic of Isaiah 7.7-9, J.J.M. Roberts The Eyes of Eli: An Essay in Motif Accretion, Jack M. Sasson From the Mouth of the Porphet: The Literary Fixation of Jeremiah's Prophecies in the Context of the Ancient Near East, Karel van der Toorn The Metaphors of 'Canaanite' and 'Baal' in Hosea, Lyn M. Bechtel What's in a Name? Cyrus and the Dating of Deutero-Isaiah, Milton Eng What Did Elijah Do to His Mantle? The Hebrew Root GLM, John Kaltner Word Event in Jeremiah: A Look at the Composition's 'Introductory Formulas', John I. Lawlor Visions of Peace in Isaiah, David A. Leiter
'Yahweh Has Given these Three Kings into the Hand of Moab': A Socio-Literary Reading of 2 Kings 3, Jesse3 C. Long, Jr, and Mark Sneed The Spiritual Journey of Jonah: From the Perspective of C.G. Jung's Analytical Psychology, Jongsoo Park Harder than Flint, Faster than Eagles: Intensified Comparatives in the Latter Prophets, Eric A. Seibert Jeremiah as a Plyphonic Response to Suffering, Louis Stulman The Royal Family in the Jeremiah Tradition, Alex Varughese
Part III: Other Studies
New Light on the Story of Achsah, William W. Hallo Bathsheba's Silence (1 Kings 1.11-31), Michael S. Moore A Quest for the Divine and... the Tourist Dollar: The Dilemma Faced by Contemporary Dervish Orders, Mary-Louise Mussell Dissonant Pieties: John Calivin and ther Prayer Psalms of the Psalter Herbert Bardwell Huffmon: A Bibliography, Paul A. Riemann Index of References Index of Authors