Guest Editorial: READING THE BOOK OF THE TWELVE THEOLOGICALLY

From: Interpretation | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Nogalski, James D | Copyright information

THE TWELVE AS A CORPUS: INTERPRETING UNITY AND DISCORD

Recent scholarship has begun to explore the implications of ancient traditions that treat the Twelve Prophets as a single scroll and count it as a single book Treatments of this evidence exist in several places, so only summary remarks need be offered here.1 One can document a consistent, though not universal, awareness of this tradition of the Twelve from roughly 200 B.C.E.-400 C.E. (from Sirach to Jerome). While some scholars exp...

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