caa a22 4500 378922734 CHVBK 20180305123609.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041001xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/zatw.2004.116.4.555 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/zatw.2004.116.4.555 Zvi Ehud Ben 1. History and Classics, 2-28 Tory Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2HH. ›The Prophets‹ - References to Generic Prophets and their Role in the Construction of the Image of the Prophets of Old within the Postmonarchic Readership/s of the Book of Kings [Elektronische Daten] [Ehud Ben Zvi] This study deals with the general image/s of the prophets of old - to be distinguished from that of particular prophets, e.g., Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah - that the Book of Kings evoked among its intended and primary readership in the postmonarchic period. It concludes that the prophets of old as a group were imagined as (a) a faithful minority of servants of YHWH who are likely to become an object of persecution, if the ruling leader is sinful, (b) a group aware of Israel's past history of misconduct that justified the extreme divine punishment against monarchic Israel, and that unsuccessfully tried to bring Israel to YHWH; (c) a group that embodies a reminder of Israel's history of rejecting YHWH and disregarding the advise of YHWH's servants; and (d) a group associated with transmission of YHWH's teachings and which stood at the earliest spot in the chain of transmission of these teachings that leads directly to the readers and rereaders of the Book of Kings. This contribution also discusses how this construction of the prophets relates to the general images of the prophets of old that were communicated by other biblical works and to the social world of the literati of the postmonarchic period. © Walter de Gruyter Religion: general nationallicence Christianity nationallicence Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Walter de Gruyter 116/4(2004-10-01), 555-567 0044-2526 116:4<555 2004 116 zatw https://doi.org/10.1515/zatw.2004.116.4.555 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/zatw.2004.116.4.555 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zvi Ehud Ben 1. History and Classics, 2-28 Tory Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2HH NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft Walter de Gruyter 116/4(2004-10-01), 555-567 0044-2526 116:4<555 2004 116 zatw CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter