Forming Prophetic Literature: Essays on Isaiah and the Twelve in Honor of John D. W. Watts

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

JAMES W. WATTS and PAUL R. HOUSE (eds.), Forming Prophetic Literature: Essays on Isaiah and the Twelve in Honor of John D. W. Watts (JSOTSup 235; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996). Pp. 324. $65.

This festschrift in honor of John D. W Watts focuses on two of his major interests: the Book of Isaiah and the Book of the Twelve Prophets (henceforth, the XII). Many of the essays on the XII in this volume were originally presented in 1994 and 1995 at meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature's Consultation on the Formation of the Book of the Twelve, which Watts helped to found and ...

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