Else K. Holt is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture and Society at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.Hyun Chul Paul Kim is Professor of Hebrew Bible, Williams Chair of Biblical Studies, at Methodist Theological Seminary in Ohio, USA.Andrew Mein is Tutor in Old Testament at Wescott House, Cambridge, UK, and series editor of The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies.

• Abbreviations ContributorsPreface IsaiahForeword: The Oracles concerning the Nations in the Prophetic LiteratureMarvin A. Sweeney, Claremont School of Theology, USA.Isaiah 22: A Crux or a Clue in Isaiah 13–23?Hyun Chul Paul Kim, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, USA.Evoking and Evading: The Poetic Presentation of the Moabite Catastrophe in Isaiah 15–16 J. Blake Couey, Gustavus Aldophus College, MN, USA.Isaiah 19:18: A Textual Variant in Light of the Temple of Onias in EgyptJ. Todd Hibbard, University of Detroit Mercy, USA.Common and Different Phrases for Babylon’s Fall and Its Aftermath in Isaiah 13–14 and Jeremiah 50–51W. A. M. Beuken, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.JeremiahBabylon as Judah’s Doppelgänger: The Identity of Opposites in the Book of Jeremiah (mt) Rannfrid Thelle, independent scholar, Wichita, USA.Embodying Moab: The Figuring of Moab in Jeremiah 48 as Reinscription of the Judean Body Carolyn J. Sharp, Yale University, USA.“As she did, do to her!”: Jeremiah’s OAN as Revenge Fantasies Amy Kalmanofsky, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, USA.Jeremiah, Sade, and Repetition as Counterpleasure in the Oracle against EdomRhiannon Graybill, Rhodes College, USA.Postcolonialism and Propaganda in Jeremiah’s Oracles against the Nations Hugh Pyper, University of Sheffield, UK.EzekielYhwh and the Kings of Middle Earth: Royal Polemic in Ezekiel’s Oracles against the NationsMadhavi Nevader, University of St Andrew's, UK. In Defense of the Great King: Ezekiel’s Oracles against TyreJohn T. Strong, Missouri State University, USA.A Serpent in the Nile: Egypt in the Book of EzekielCorrine L. Carvalho, University of St Thomas, St Paul MN, USA.ResponseAfter the Nation: Reading Oracles against the Nations amidst the Fragmenting of the Nation-StateSteed Vernyl Davidson, Graduate Theological Union, CA, USA.Bibliography Index of ReferencesIndex of Authors

There are some fascinating and stimulating essays in this collection ... [A]n important and suggestive collection for those in the field of the OANs.