Priests in the Prophets

Lester L. Grabbe is Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism at the University of Hull. He is founder and convenor of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology. A recent book is Ancient Israel:What Do We Know and How Do We Know it? Alice Ogdon Bellis is Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Howard University School of Divinity, Washington, D.C.

• I. Introduction; Lester L. Grabbe; Introduction and Overview; II. Articles; Ehud Ben Zvi; Observations on Prophetic Characters, Prophetic Texts, Priests of Old, Perslan Period Priests and Literati; Brian Bibb The Prophetic Critique of Ritual in Old Testament Theology; Daniel E. Fleming Prophets and Temple Personnel in the Mari Archives; Julie Galambush The Northern Voyage of Psammeticus II and its Implications for Ezekiel 44.7-9; Lester L. Grabbe A Priest is without Honor in his Own Prophet: Priests and Other Religious Specialists in the Latter Prophets; James Linville The Day of Yahweh and the Mourning of the Priests in Joel; Richard D. Nelson Priestly Purity and Prophetic Lunacy: Hosea 1.2-3 and 9.7; Margaret S. Odell What Was the Image of Jealousy in Ezekiel 8? Corrine Patton Layers of Meaning: Priesthood in Jeremiah MT; Joachim Schaper The Priests in the Book of Malachi and their Opponents; Ziony Zevit The Prophet versus Priest Antagonism Hypothesis: Its History and Origin

"This research is indeed indispensable to our ongoing attempt to appreciate the social and religious factors that motivated the prophets' criticism of the priests."- Jacob L. Wright, The Society of Biblical Literature, July 2005