Prophetic Conflicts in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Micah: How Post-Exilic Ideologies Created the False (and the True) Prophets (Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe, Band 121)

In this volume Francesco Arena investigates false prophecy and prophetic conflicts taking Jeremiah Ezekiel and Micah as the three books in the Bible most concerned with prophesying falsehood and false prophets. By building on the studies of G. Auld R. Carroll and G. Garbini who first posited that the Writing Prophets were not prophets at all but rather intellectuals or poets the author puts the vexed question of false prophecy into a new perspective. If we accept that Jeremiah Ezekiel and Micah were not originally true prophets (or prophets at all) what should we do with their quarr els with the alleged false prophets? Can we still consider prophetic conflicts as expressions of a socio-religious phenomenon? Or should we instead consider them as some later creations to serve ideological purposes?