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Mark Leuchter
Mark Leuchter is a professor of religion and the director of Jewish Studies at Temple University. He received his PhD in 2003 from the University of Toronto, and was previously the coordinator of Biblical Studies at University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of several books and articles on the religion of Ancient Israel and the history of early Judaism and likes dogs, but not those yappy little ones with Napoleon complexes.
The Tradition of Disagreement in Biblical Prophets
- Friday 9:15 PM–10:30 PM Room 202
Jewish tradition generally regards the biblical prophets as a unified front, a group of spokesmen in ancient Israel who spoke the word of God to their audiences. But a closer look at the prophets themselves shows remarkable disagreement between them over what, exactly, constituted the "word of God" or what Israel's deity actually demanded from his people. The Bible preserves discrepancies, arguments, polemics and even personal attacks between the prophets of ancient Israel. This session will look at a few famous prophetic passages that will give us a sense of how diverse -- and divided -- the
Israelite prophetic tradition really was.
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