Among the Prophets : language, image and structure in the prophetic writings / edited by Philip R. Davies and David J.A. Clines.

"The papers presented in this volume were originally offered to the Journal for the study of the Old Testament and accepted by its editors for publication. In view of the growing pressure on space in the Journal, it was subsequently decided ... to issue them in the JSOT supplement series."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Hearing and seeing : metamorphoses of a motif in Isaiah 1-39 / K.T. Aitken -- On ûmeśôś in Isaiah 8.6 / Marvin A. Sweeney -- Of lions and birds : a note on Isaiah 31.4-5 / Michael L. Barré -- The construction of the subject and the symbolic order : a reading of the last three suffering servant songs / Francis Landy -- Radical images of Yahweh in Isaiah 63 / John F.A. Sawyer -- Ezekiel 16 : abandoned child, bride adorned or unfaithful wife? / M.G. Swanepoel -- Ezekiel 27 and the comic ship / John B. Geyer -- Structure, tradition and redaction in Ezekiel's death valley vision / Leslie C. Allen -- In praise of divine caprice : the significance of the Book of Jonah / Alan Cooper -- Jonah : a battle of shifting alliances / Timothy L. Wilt -- Jonah's poem out of and within its context / Athalya Brenner -- The redactional shaping of Nahum I for the Book of the Twelve / James Nogalski.