A true compendium of recent scholarship, the volume includes over 100 articles covering all aspects of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the twelve "minor prophets" and Daniel.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• How to Use This Dictionary
• Abbreviations
• Transliterations
• List of Contributors
• A
• ABRAHAMIC COVENANT.
• AFTERLIFE
• AMOS, BOOK OF
• ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN PROPHECY
• ANGELS, MESSENGERS, HEAVENLY BEINGS
• ANGER.
• ANIMAL IMAGERY
• APOCALYPTICISM, APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE
• APOCRYPHA, PROPHETIC.
• ARAMAIC LANGUAGE
• ASSYRIA, ASSYRIAN PERIOD.
• ATONEMENT.
• B
• BAAL WORSHIP.
• BABYLON
• BABYLONIAN EXILE.
• BABYLONIAN PERIOD.
• BLESSINGS AND CURSES
• BURIAL.
• C
• CALL/COMMISSION NARRATIVES
• CANON, CANONIZATION
• CANONICAL CRITICISM
• CHAOS
• CHILDBEARING.
• COMFORT.
• COMPOSITION OF PROPHETIC BOOKS.
• CONFESSION.
• CONVERSATION ANALYSIS
• COSMOLOGY
• COURT TALES.
• COVENANT
• CREATION THEOLOGY
• CREATOR.
• CULT.
• CULTIC PROPHECY.
• CUP OF WRATH.
• CURSES.
• D
• DANIEL: BOOK OF
• DANIEL: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• DARIUS THE MEDE.
• DAUGHTER ZION.
• DAVIDIC COVENANT /KINGSHIP.
• DAY OF THE LORD
• DAY OF YAHWEH.
• DEAD SEA SCROLLS
• DEATH
• DECALOGUE.
• DELIVERANCE.
• DELIVERER, GOD AS.
• DEPORTATION.
• DESERT.
• DESTRUCTION
• DIRGES.
• DIVINATION, MAGIC
• DIVINE ASSEMBLY.
• DIVINE COUNCIL
• DIVINE PRESENCE
• DIVINE WARFARE.
• DIVINE WARRIOR.
• DIVORCE.
• DRAMA, PROPHETIC.
• E
• ECONOMIC JUSTICE.
• EDITORIAL/REDACTION CRITICISM
• ENACTED PROPHECY.
• ESCHATOLOGY
• ESCHATOLOGY IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY.
• ETHICS
• EVIL
• EXILE
• EXODUS IMAGERY
• EXTRA -CANONICAL BOOKS OF PROPHETS.
• EZEKIEL: BOOK OF
• EZEKIEL: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• F
• FAITH
• FALSE PROPHECY.
• FATHER, GOD AS.
• FEMALE IMAGERY.
• FEMALE PROPHETS.
• FEMINIST INTERPRETATION
• FLORAL IMAGERY
• FORCED MIGRATION.
• FORGIVENESS
• FORM CRITICISM
• FORMATION OF THE PROPHETIC BOOKS
• FOUR EMPIRES.
• FUTURE.
• G
• GOD
• GODS.
• GREEK OLD TESTAMENT.
• GUILT.
• H
• HABAKKUK, BOOK OF
• HAGGAI, BOOK OF
• HARLOTRY.
• HEAVEN.
• HEAVENLY BEINGS.
• HEBREW LANGUAGE
• HELLENISTIC PERIOD.
• HERMENEUTICS
• HIGH AND LIFTED UP.
• HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL.
• HOLY SPIRIT.
• HONOR AND SHAME
• HOSEA, BOOK OF
• I
• IDOLS, IDOLATRY, GODS
• IMMANUEL PROPHECY.
• INNERBIBLICAL INTERPRETATION.
• INTERCESSION.
• INTERPRETATION.
• INTERTEXTUALITY AND INNERBIBLICAL INTERPRETATION
• ISAIAH: BOOK OF
• ISAIAH: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• ISAIAH SCROLL.
• ISRAEL
• ISRAELITE HISTORY
• J, K
• JEREMIAH: BOOK OF
• JEREMIAH: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• JOEL, BOOK OF
• JONAH, BOOK OF
• JOY.
• JUDGE, GOD AS.
• JUDGMENT.
• JUSTICE, RIGHTEOUSNESS
• KINGS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH.
• L
• LAMENT, MOURNING
• LAMENTATIONS, BOOK OF
• LAND
• LATE PERSIAN PERIOD.
• LAW
• LEADERSHIP
• LIFE AFTER DEATH.
• LITERACY.
• LITERARY APPROACHES
• LITERARY UNITY.
• LITURGY AND CULT
• LORD GOD.
• M
• MAGIC.
• MALACHI, BOOK OF
• MANTIC WISDOM.
• MARI, PROPHECY AT.
• MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
• MASORETIC TEXT.
• MESSIAH
• METAPHOR.
• MICAH, BOOK OF
• MILLENNIALISM.
• MINOR PROPHETS.
• MONOTHEISM.
• MOSAIC COVENANT.
• MOUNTAIN IMAGERY
• MOURNING.
• N
• NAHUM, BOOK OF
• NARRATIVE PLOT.
• NATIONS
• NEW COVENANT.
• NEW EXODUS.
• NEW TESTAMENT.
• NIGHT VISIONS.
• NONWRITING PROPHETS.
• O
• OBADIAH, BOOK OF
• ORACLES AGAINST THE NATIONS.
• ORAL TRANSMISSION.
• P, Q
• PATRIARCHY.
• PEACE, REST
• PERFORMANCE CRITICISM
• PERSIAN PERIOD.
• PESHER INTERPRETATION.
• PLANT IMAGERY.
• POETIC JUSTICE.
• POETRY.
• POST -EXILIC PROPHECY.
• POVERTY.
• PRAYER
• PRESENCE OF GOD.
• PRIESTLY COVENANT.
• PROPHECY, HISTORY OF
• PROPHECY AND ESCHATOLOGY IN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
• PROPHECY AND PSYCHOLOGY
• PROPHECY AND SOCIETY
• PROPHECY AND TRADITION
• PROPHECY AND WISDOM
• PROPHETIC VISIONS.
• PROPHETS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
• PSYCHOLOGY.
• PUNISHMENT.
• QUMRAN.
• R
• RECORDING OF PROPHECY.
• REDACTION CRITICISM.
• REDEEMER, GOD AS.
• RELIGIOUS LEADERS.
• REMARRIAGE.
• REMNANT
• REPENTANCE
• REST.
• RESTORATION.
• RESURRECTION.
• RETRIBUTION
• REVEALER, GOD AS.
• RHETORICAL CRITICISM
• RICH, RICHES.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS.
• RULERSHIP.
• S
• SACRED MOUNTAIN.
• SACRIFICE AND ATONEMENT
• SAGES.
• SALVATION, DELIVERANCE
• SANCTUARY.
• SCRIBES.
• SEPTUAGINT OF BOOK OF THE TWELVE.
• SEPTUAGINT OF ISAIAH.
• SEPTUAGINT OF JEREMIAH.
• SERAPHIM.
• SERVANT OF YAHWEH
• SERVANT SONGS.
• SEVENTY SEVENS.
• SEVENTY YEARS.
• SEXUAL IMAGERY.
• SHAME.
• SHEPHERD, GOD AS.
• SIGN ACTS
• SIN, SINNERS
• SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS.
• SOCIAL JUSTICE
• SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES
• SOCIETY.
• SON OF MAN.
• SORCERY.
• SOVEREIGN, GOD AS.
• SPIRIT OF YAHWEH
• SUFFERING
• SUFFERING SERVANT.
• SUPERNATURAL BEINGS /CREATURES.
• SYRO -EPHRAIMITIC WAR.
• T, U
• TEMPLE
• TEN COMMANDMENTS.
• TEXT AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM
• TEXTUAL CRITICISM.
• TEXTUAL POETICS.
• THAT DAY.
• THEODICY.
• THEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION.
• TIME.
• TORAH.
• TRADITION.
• TRANSMITTING PROPHECY.
• TREES.
• TRUE AND FALSE PROPHECY
• TWELVE, BOOK OF THE
• TWELVE, BOOK OF THE: HISTORY OF INTERPRETATION
• UNDERWORLD.
• UNFAITHFUL WIFE, GOD'S.
• UNIFYING STRUCTURE.
• UNIVERSALISM.
• V
• VENGEANCE.
• VIOLENCE.
• VISIONS, PROPHETIC
• W, X, Y
• WARFARE AND DIVINE WARFARE
• WEALTH AND POVERTY
• WEEKS OF YEARS.
• WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.
• WILDERNESS, DESERT
• WISDOM.
• WOMEN AND FEMALE IMAGERY
• WORD OF GOD
• WORSHIP
• WRATH
• WRITING AND PROPHECY
• YAHWEH.
• Z
• ZECHARIAH, BOOK OF
• ZEPHANIAH, BOOK OF
• ZION