Abstract
The books gathered together from Isaiah to Malachi in the Hebrew Bible are uniformly outspoken against prophets. With the exception of cliched phrases such as 'Yahweh's servants the prophets' and its variations, and the book of Amos, prophets are the targets for considerable negative criticism. It is therefore quite a startling reversal of values to discover that the framing devices controlling Isaiah-Malachi include the partial representation of some of these texts as the output of prophets. The whole 'prophetic' tradition in the Hebrew Bible is glossed by generalizations and ideological value judgments. Collectivities of prophets are praised as YHWH' s servants or damned as preachers of falsehood, windbags and misleaders of the community. All the 'prophetic' books give fair evidence of their intertextual nature, though few scholars have yet produced an adequate account of the conditions for the production of such texts. Keywords: book of Amos; Hebrew Bible; intertextual nature; Isaiah; Malachi; negative criticism; prophetic tradition
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