Canonical shaping of the prophets

This represents all my posts on the subject to date, taken from Childs' "The Canonical Shape of the Prophetic Literature," pp. 513-522 in "The Place is Too Small for Us": The Israelite Prophets in Recent Scholarship. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1995 (available for free on ATLA).

1. Amos: The extension of a prophetic message

2. Hosea: The "metaphorisation" of prophecy

3. Second Isaiah: The decontextualisation of prophecy

4. Jeremiah: Canonical Scripture as redactional context

5. Subordination of chronology to typology

6. Prophetic redaction as a "rule of faith"

7. The typologizing of prophetic oracles