Theology

Francesco Arena

Prophetic Conflicts in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah

How Post-Exilic Ideologies Created the False (and the True) Prophets

[Prophetische Konflikte in Jeremia, Hesekiel und Micha. Wie post-exilische Ideologien die falschen (und die wahren) Propheten schuf.]

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Can we consider prophetic conflicts as expressions of a socio-religious phenomenon or should we consider them as post-exilic creations that serve ideological purposes? In his study, Francesco Arena investigates false prophecy and prophetic conflicts, taking Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah as the three books in the Bible most concerned with prophesying falsehood and false prophets.
In this volume, Francesco Arena investigates false prophecy and prophetic conflicts, taking Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah as the three books in the Bible most concerned with prophesying falsehood and false prophets. By building on the studies of G. Auld, R. Carroll, and G. Garbini, who first posited that the Writing Prophets were not prophets at all, but rather intellectuals or poets, the author puts the vexed question of false prophecy into a new perspective. If we accept that Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah were not originally true prophets (or prophets at all) what should we do with their quarrels with the alleged false prophets? Can we still consider prophetic conflicts as expressions of a socio-religious phenomenon? Or should we instead consider them as some later creations to serve ideological purposes?
Authors/Editors

Francesco Arena Born 1987; BA in Ancient and Medieval Literature (University of Turin); MA in Religious Studies (University of Padua and University Ca' Foscari – Venice); 2019 PhD in Hebrew and Old Testament Studies (University of Edinburgh); currently teaching Italian language, Italian literature and History (high-school level) in Italy.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Bibel und Kirche — 1 (2022), S. 52–53 (Veronika Maierhofer)
In: Review of Biblical Literature — https://www.sblcentral.org/ (06/2021) (Samuel A. Meier)
In: Bibel und Kirche – Biblische Bücherschau — https://www.bibelwerk.de/fileadmin/verein/buecherschau/2022/Arena_Prophetic-Conflicts.pdf (Veronika Maierhofer)
In: Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (ZAW) — 133 (2021), pp. 263–264 (Uwe Becker)
In: Biblische Notizen — 193 (2022), pp. 104–105 (Karin Schöpflin)
In: The Bible Today — January 2021, p. 59
In: Old Testament Abstracts — 44 (2021), pp. 637–638 (Christopher T. Begg)
In: Recherches de Science Religieuse (RSR) — 111 (2023), pp. 563–564 (Elena Di Pede)