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 quarrels 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?
