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Title: A History of Prophecy in Israel - revised by Joseph Blenkinsopp ISBN: 0-664-25639-2 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Critical introduction to OT prophecy from a leading scholar
Comment: Measured by his own narrow objectives and admitted limitations the book of the author is a success. The entire time span of prophecy is covered in one book and he develops convincing arguments for a tradition of prophecy in Israel.
Blenkinsopp does not let us know who the intended audience of his book is. He could not have in mind the time -pressured human of today's high tech world. One cannot find a single chart or graphical overview in his book, maybe a modern scholar of his educational level considers charts and graphical overviews as unworthy of a scholar.
The main method Blenkinsopp uses is the analysis of literary development, or source criticism (=historical). In many aspects Blenkinsopp is influenced by the theology of Bernhard Duhm. Considering that Duhm was a personal friend of Wellhausen and a fellow professor in Goettingen it should not come to the reader as a surprise that source criticism is overemphasized at the cost of a more thematic approach. Like Gerhard von Rad in his preface to Genesis said, "source analysis is not the final conclusion of wisdom" the reader sometimes feels that he could draw the same conclusions as Blankinsopp, but without all the detailed speculative source analysis.
For the conservative Christian who believes in the inspiration, inerrancy or infallibility of scripture Blenkinsopp offers some unacceptable pills to swallow when he states that: biblical sources are confused and self-contradictory (p.199), this narrative appears to be a free composition (1 Kings 13:1-32; p.158), ideological reasons drove the composition of texts (p.151), Chronicles is not the most reliable of sources (p.119), failures of the biblical historian (p.117), and hyperbolic fantasies of Nahum (p.112) etc. However one wonders if the author leaves room for partial inspiration of texts when he talks about Isaiah 53 (p.192&193) In general though supernatural prediction are excluded as a possibility, so that a prediction about the fate of Bethel in Amos automatically leads to the assumption that this section has been added later in the light of Josiah's reform (p.164).
The conservative Christian might ask himself what the critical view of the prophetic scriptures offers over a traditional or non-critical. It does not need a critical view of prophecy to identify one's social responsibility. But maybe the book offers solutions of dealing intellectually with prophetic phenomena in the Pentecostal or charismatic movement.
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Title: The Prophets by Abraham J. Heschel ISBN: 0060936991 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Eighth Century Prophets: A Social Analysis by D. N. Premnath ISBN: 0827208170 Publisher: Chalice Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel by Robert Wilson ISBN: 0800618149 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Theology of the Prophetic Books: The Death and Resurrection of Israel by Donald E. Gowan ISBN: 0664256899 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Religion of Ancient Israel (Library of Ancient Israel) by Patrick D. Miller, Douglas A. Knight ISBN: 0664221459 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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