Review Article: Anthropology and the Biblical Exile

Over the past three decades there have been a few attempts to use social anthropology to explore the Old Testament (OT) and interdisciplinary studies of this sort are now becoming more mainstream. Historical and archaeological data concerning ancient societies are necessarily limited in scope, and anthropological comparisons may offer insights into historical peoples who cannot be observed. This article discusses recent trends in post-exilic studies, in particular those appealing to anthropology

Constructs of prophecy in the former and latter prophets and other texts

Esta colección de ensayos, producto de las reuniones del Grupo Textos Proféticos y sus Contextos Antiguos, de la SBL, examina como se construyó la profecía en literatura bíblica como los profetas anteriores, los profetas posteriores, Crónicas, y Daniel, e incluso en el Corán. Al reconocer que estos textos no describen simplemente los fenómenos proféticos, sino que más bien representan a los profetas de acuerdo a varias categorías convencionales o sus propios puntos de vista individuales, los ensayos analizan la manera en la que la profecía y los profetas son retratados en estos escritos, con el fin de entender mejor como fueron estructurados por sus respectivos autores.This collection of essays, arising from the meetings of the SBL’s Prophetic Texts and Their Ancient Contexts Group, examines how prophecy has been constructed in biblical literature such as the Former Prophets, the Latter Prophets, Chronicles, and Daniel, and even in the Qur’an. Recognizing that these texts do not simply describe the prophetic phenomena but rather depict prophets according to various conventional categories or their own individual points of view, the essays analyze the way prophecy or prophets are portrayed in these writings to better understand how they were structured by their respective authors