Major Book Reviews -- History and Prophecy: The Development of Late Judean Literary Traditions (the Anchor Bible Reference Library) by Brian Peckham

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History and Prophecy: The Development of Late Judean Literary Traditions, by Brian Peckham. The Anchor Bible Reference Library. Doubleday, New York, 1993. 880 pp. $35.00 ISBN 0-385-42348-9.

IN THIS LATEST and bulkiest addition to the Anchor Bible Reference Library, Peckham sets out to trace the development of the literary tradition of ancient Israel with respect to the interconnected genres of historiography and prophecy and to the exclusion of the didactic and sapiential literature. His method is to set out in sequence the cumulative stages in that development, and he does so with great confidence, which may or may or not be shared by the reader, in his ability to assign dates, …