"Papers read at the eleventh joint meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and het Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland en Belgie held at Soesterberg, 2000."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

When the agenda of an artistic composition is hidden: Jonah and intertextual dialogue with Isaiah 6, the 'confession of Jeremiah' and other texts / A.A. Abela -- From king to prophet in Samuel and Kings / A.G. Auld -- Prophets in the Book of Chronicles / P.C. Beentjes -- Personifications and prophetic voices of Zion in Isaiah and beyond / U. Berges -- A prophet in despaeration? the confessions of Jeremiah / C. Bultmann -- Threading as a stylistic feature of Amos / T.A. Collins -- 'I am neither a prophet nor a prophet's pupil' Amos 7:9-17 as the presentation of a prophet like Moses / M. Dijkstra -- Israelite prophecy: characteristics of the first protest movement / T.L. Fenton -- Jonah from the whale: exodus motifs in Jonah 2 / A.G. Hunter -- The Portrayal of Moses as Deuteronomic archetypal prophet in Exodus and its revisal / W. Johnstone -- Blowing the same shofar: an intertextual comparison of representations of the prophetic role in Jeremiah and Ezekiel / H. Leene -- Ezekiel as a priest in exile / A. Mein -- Person shift in prophetic texts: its function and its rendering in ancient and modern translations / L.J. de Regt -- Deborah, a prophetess: the meaning and background of Judges 4:4-5 / K. Spronk.