How prophecy works: a study of the semantic field of nvyʾ and a close reading of Jeremiah 1:4–19, 23:9–40 and 27:1–28:17
There is a longstanding scholarly debate on the nature of prophecy in ancient Israel. Until now, no study has based itself on the semantics of the Hebrew lexeme nābîʾ (“prophet”). This investigation by William L. Kelly discusses the nature and function of prophecy in the corpus of the Hebrew book of...