Reuse of Prophecy in the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. Rewriting and Canonization

Abstract

This chapter addresses the second part of the canon, the Prophets. The interpretation of prophetic literature has faced a special difficulty, which was formulated for the first time, as far as the author knows, by the great Jewish scholar of the nineteenth century: L. Zunz, who wrote about the book of Ezekiel that it was possibly not so much the document of the prophecies of a prophet from the sixth century BCE, rather a literary composition from the second century BCE. The chapter deals with the most secure knowledge of the formation of book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. The redaction of the book of the Twelve Minor Prophets shows how the spoken words of the prophets became books and were then subject to further interpretations. It is hoped that research on the 'rewritten Bible' would be enriched by results of the recent redactional criticism of the Twelve Minor Prophets. Keywords: L. Zunz; prophetic literature; rewritten Bible; Twelve Minor Prophets