"This volume found its impetus in the Ancient Historiography Seminar / Groupe de Travail sur l'Historiographie Ancienne at the 2009 Annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies / Societe canadienne des Etudes bibliques, where several of the essays were originally presented."

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Part 1. Prophets and prophecy in Israelite historiographic books. Face to face: Moses as prophet in Exodus 11:1-12:28 / Brenon Lee

Shaping of a prophet: Joshua in the Deuteronomistic history / Gordon Oeste

Recycling heaven's word: receiving and retrieving divine revelation in the historiography of Judges / Mark J. Boda

Samuel agonistes: a conflicted prophet's resistance to God and contribution to the failure of Israel's first King / J. Richard Middleton

Prophecy as prediction in Biblical historiography / John Van Seters

Jeroboam and the prophets in I Kings 11-14: Prophetic word for two kingdoms / Lissa M. Wray Beal

Presumptuous prophets participating in a Deuteronomic debate / K.L. Noll

Prophecy influencing history: dialogism in the Chronicler's Ahaz narrative / Paul S. Evans

Chronicles and its reshaping of memories of Monarchic period prophets: some observations / Ehud Ben Zvi

Deus ex Machina and plot construction in Ezra 1-6 / Lisbeth S. Fried

Is the governor also among the prophets? Parsing the purposes of Jeremiah in the memory of Nehemiah / David Shepherd

The use and non-use of prophetic literature in Hellenistic Jewish historiography / Andrew W. Pitts

Part 2. Historiography in Israelite Prophetic books. Poetics of history and the prophecy of Deutero-Isaiah / Danielle Duperreault

Personal missives and National history: the relationship between Jeremiah 29 and 36 / Mark Leuchter

Ezekiel's perspective of Israel's history: selective revisionism / Brian Peterson

The ordering of the twelve as Israel's historiography / Grace Ko

Exilic prophecy of Daniel 7 : does it reflect Late Pre-Maccabean or Early Hellenistic historiography / Ralph J. Korner

(Re) Visionary history: historiography and religious identity in the animal apocalypse / Colin M. Toffelmire.

Bible > Historiography > Congresses.

Bible. Prophets > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Congresses.

Bible. Old Testament > Historiography > Congresses.

Bible. Prophets > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Congresses.

Jews > History > To 70 A.D. > Historiography > Congresses.

Judaism > Historiography > Congresses.

Prophecy > Judaism.

Jews > History > To 70 A.D. > Historiography > Congresses.

Judaism > Historiography > Congresses.

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