"Märtyrer" und "Prophet"

Abstract Biblical prophecy involves more than words: it is always also embodied. After assessing the implications and origins of a logocentric model of biblical prop...

With keen insight and lucid analysis, Adele Berlin brings the dramatic words of the great prophet Zaphaniah to life. Living under the tumultuous reign of King Josiah of Judah (640-...

In the early decades of the twentieth century, the reception of Blake as a Whitmanesque prophet–artist became even more closely entwined with literary visions of America. The mysti...

The Book of Ezekiel is set in the tumultuous period of the early sixth century, when successive Babylonian invasions devastated Judah and Jerusalem. It introduces Ezekiel himself a...

This chapter looks at the Mormons' earliest choirs, first by considering passages in the Book of Mormon that mentioned heavenly “choirs”—all of which would have made sense to a you...

This chapter examines the elevation of Abraham Lincoln from president to spiritual hero of the Republic, one whom the spiritualists regarded as the embodiment of the spirit of the ...

1 Chronicles 1–9 presents an archive of genealogies that performs memory and identities of Israel in a highly nuanced manner. Numerous references to women fulfil structural functio...