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| Authors: | Niels Peter Lemche Thomas L. Thompson |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Biblical Studies , The University of Copenhagen;2. Copenhagen |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The author underscores the uniqueness of the situation which produced a text but also the process of rewriting and interpretation which followed later applications of the same text. Laato's belief in seeking for historically fixable ideological contexts of prophetic texts is, however, unjustified in light of the unhistorical nature of this context as presented by the OT. Any recurrence to the tradition process of Mesopotamian epic texts in this connection is wrong, as the Mesopotamian tradition was very different from the Palestinian one. Instead of looking for a fixed redactional pattern for all prophetic texts, we should reckon each book to have its own history. |
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