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26 - The Prophet and the Priest

Open Access, Public Transparency, and Separation of Powers

from Part IV - A People of Protest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2023

Jacob L. Wright
Jacob L. Wright
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Emory University, Atlanta
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The Judean kingdom is in its final throes, and Jehoiakim is on the throne. His father, Josiah, is famous for finding a copy of the Torah and instituting religious reforms. In his son’s reign, however, Judah had become a vassal to Babylon, and now it was looking to Egypt for the right moment to break free. In doing so, the palace has to contend with major obstacles, and one of them is a prophet: Jeremiah. He is loudly protesting the state’s policies as they pertain to both international and internal relations.

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Why the Bible Began
An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins
 , pp. 406 - 420
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Gordon, Robert P. and Barstad, Hans M. (eds.), “Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela”: Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period, Eisenbrauns, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hamori, Esther J., Women’s Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge, Yale University Press, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Himmelfarb, Martha, A Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Knohl, Israel, The Divine Symphony: The Bible’s Many Voices, Jewish Publication Society, 2003.Google Scholar
Leuchter, Mark and Hutton, Jeremy M. (eds.), Levites and Priests in Biblical History and Tradition, Society of Biblical Literature, 2011.Google Scholar
Moore, James D., Literary Depictions of the Scribal Profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36, De Gruyter, 2021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nissinen, Martti, Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East, SBL Press, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pongratz-Leisten, Beate, Religion and Ideology in Assyria, De Gruyter, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sharp, Carolyn J., Prophecy and Ideology in Jeremiah: Struggles for Authority in the Deutero-Jeremianic Prose, T&T Clark, 2003.Google Scholar
Stökl, Jonathan and Carvalho, Corrine L. (eds.), Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East, Society of Biblical Literature, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stökl, Jonathan, Prophecy in the Ancient Near East: A Philological and Sociological Comparison, Brill, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wright, Jacob L., “The Commemoration of Defeat and the Formation of a Nation the Hebrew Bible,” Prooftexts 29 (2009): 433–473.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wright, Jacob L., “‘Human, All Too Human’: Royal Name-making in Wartime,” in Levin, Yigal and Shapira, Amnon (eds.), War and Peace in Jewish Tradition: From the Ancient World to the Present, Routledge, 2011.Google Scholar
Wright, Jacob L., “Prolegomena to the Study of Biblical Prophetic Literature,” in Römer, Thomas and Durand, Jean-Marie (eds.), Comment devient-on prophète?, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.Google Scholar

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