Collection of previously published and unpublished essays.

Includes bibliograhical references and indexes.

The Book of Isaiah as prophetic Torah -- On multiple settings in the Book of Isaiah -- On m|eþsþ̥s in Isaiah 8:6 -- Prophetic exegesis in Isaiah 65-66 -- The Masoretic and Septuagint versions of the Book of Jeremiah in synchronic and diachronic perspective -- The truth in true and false prophecy -- Structure and redaction in Jeremiah 2-6 -- Jeremiah 30-31 and King Josiah's program of national restoration and religious reform -- Ezekiel : Zadokite priest and visionary prophet of the exile -- The destruction of Jerusalem as purification in Ezekiel 8-11 -- The assertion of divine power in Ezekiel 33:21-39:29 -- Sequence and interpretation in the Book of the twelve -- The place and function of Joel in the Book of the twelve -- Micah's debate with Isaiah -- Zechariah's debate with Isaiah -- The priesthood and the prot-apocalyptic reading of prophetic and pentateuchal texts -- The end of eschatology in Daniel? Thelological and soci-political ramifications of the changing contexts of interpretation -- Davidic typology in the forty year war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness -- pardes revisited once again : a reassessment of the Rabbinic legend concerning the four who entered Pardes.