A Chorus of Prophetic Voices: Introducing the Prophetic Literature of Ancient Israel

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While there are many textbooks about the prophetic literature, most have

taken either a historical or literary approach to studying the prophets. A

Chorus of Prophetic Voices, by contrast, draws on both historical and

literary approaches by paying careful attention to the prophets as narrative

characters. It considers each unique prophetic voice in the canon, in its fully

developed literary form, while also listening to what these voices say together

about a particular experience in Israel’s story. It presents these four

scrollsaEURO Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the Book of the TwelveaEURO as works produced

in the aftermath of destruction, works that employ prophetic characters, and as the

words uttered during the crises. The prophetic literature became for Israel, living

in a context of dispersion and imperial domination, a portable and adaptable

resource at once both challenging and comforting. This book provides the fullest

picture available for introducing students to the prophetic literature by valuing

the role of the original prophetic characters, the finished state of the books that

bear their names, the separate historical crises in the life of Israel they address,

and the aEUROoechorus of prophetic voicesaEURO one hears when reading them as part of a

coherent literary corpus.