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| Prophetism in American Public Discourse | ||
| Primary Texts (to 1870) | ||
| Howe, Julia Wark | "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". U of Oklahoma Law Center. Chronology of U. S. Historical Documents. 24 Aug. 1998. <http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/bathymn.html>. | |
| Penn, William [Jr.] | Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims. 1642. Internet Modern History Sourcebook. 24 Aug. 1998. <http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1682penn-solitude.html>. | |
| Winthrop, John. | A Modell of Christian Charity. 1630. Hanover Historical Texts Project. 24 Aug. 1998. <http://history.hanover.edu/texts/winthmod.html>. | |
| Woolman, John. | A Journal of the Life, Gospel Labours, and Christian Experiences of That Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Woolman, Late of Mount-Holly, in the Province of New Jersey. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1784. Renascence Editions. 10 Oct. 2002. <http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/woolman.html>. | |
| Secondary Sources | ||
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Berkovitch, Sacvan. |
The American Jeremiad. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1978. |
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| Betz, Brian R. | "Erich Fromm and the Rhetoric of Prophecy." Central States Speech Journal 26 (1975): 310-315. | |
| Browne, Stephen H. | "Samuel Danforth's Errand into the Wilderness and the Discourse of Arrival in Early American Culture." Communication Quarterly 40 (1992): 91-101. | |
| ---. | "'This Unparalleled and Inhuman Massacre': The Gothic, the Sacred, and the Meaning of Nat Turner." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 3 (2000): 309-331. | |
| Brummett, Barry. | Contemporary Apocalyptic Rhetoric. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1991. | |
| ---. | "Premillenial Apocalyptic as a Rhetorical Genre." Central States Speech Journal 35 (1984): 84-93. | |
| ---. | "Using Apocalyptic Discourse to Exploit Audience Commitments Through 'Transfer'." Southern Communication Journal 54 (1988): 58-73. | |
| Corts, Thomas. | "The Great Revival of 1800." Central States Speech Journal 18 (1967): 91-96. | |
| Chesebrough, David B. | Charles G. Finney: Revivalistic Rhetoric. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 2001. | |
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Darsey, James Francis. |
The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America. New York: New York UP, 1997. |
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| ---. | "The Legend of Eugene Debs: Prophetic Ethos as Radical Argument." Quarterly Journal of Speech 74 (1988): 434-452. | |
| Griffin, Charles J. G. | "The Rhetoric of Form in Conversion Narratives." Quarterly Journal of Speech 76 (1990): 152-163. | |
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Japp, Phyllis M. |
"Esther or Isaiah?: The Abolitionist-Feminist Rhetoric of Angelina Grimke." Quarterly Journal of Speech 71.3 (1985): 35–348. |
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| Lake, Randall A. | "Between Myth and History: Enacting Time in Native American Protest Rhetoric." Quarterly Journal of Speech 77 (1991): 123-151. | |
| Larson, Barbara A. | "Samuel Davies and the Rhetoric of the New Light." Speech Monographs 38 (1971): 207-216. | |
| McGee, Brian R. | "Witnessing and Ethos: The Evangelical Conversion of David Duke." Western Journal of Communication 62 (1998): 214-243. | |
| Mixon, Harold, and Mary Frances Hopkins. | "Apocalypticism in Secular Public Discourse: A Proposed Theory." Central States Speech Journal 39 (1988): 244-257. | |
| Morris, Richard, and Philip Wander. | "Native American Rhetoric: Dancing in the Shadows of the Ghost Dance." Quarterly Journal of Speech 76 (1990): 164-191. | |
| Murphy, John M. | "'A Time of Shame and Sorrow': Robert F. Kennedy and the American Jeremiad." Quarterly Journal of Speech 76 (1990): 401-414. | |
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O’Leary, Stephen. |
"Millerism as a Rhetorical Movement." Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millenial Rhetoric. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 93–110. |
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| O'Leary, Stephen, and Michael McFarland. | "The Political Use of Mythic Discourse: Prophetic Interpretation in Pat Robertson's Presidential Campaign." Quarterly Journal of Speech 75 (1989): 433-452. | |
| Overholt, Thomas. | Channels of Prophecy: The Social Dynamics of Prophetic Activity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989. | |
| Pauley, John L. | "Reshaping Public Persona and the Prophetic Ethos: Louis Farrakhan at the Million Man March." Western Journal of Communication 62 (1998): 523-536. | |
| Pullum, Stephen J. | "Foul Demons, Come Out! The Rhetoric of Twentieth Century American Faith Healing. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. | |
| Ray, Roberta K. | "The Role of the Orator in the Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson." Speech Monographs 41 (1974): 215-225. | |
| Reid, Ronald F. | "Apocalypticism and Typology: Rhetorical Dimensions of a Symbolic Reality." Quarterly Journal of Speech 69 (1983): 229-248. | |
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Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. Library of Congress Exhibition. URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/. 18 August 1999. |
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| Ritter, Kurt W. | "American Political Rhetoric and the Jeremiad Tradition: Presidential Nomination Acceptance Addresses, 1960-1976." Central States Speech Journal 31 (1980): 153-171. | |
| Rogers, William B. | "We Are All Together Now": Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Prophetic Tradition. New York: Garland, 1995. | |
| The Salem Witchcraft Papers:Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692. Ed. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. Witchcraft in Salem Village. The Danvers Archival Center. URL: http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/. 18 August 1999. | ||
| Sullivan, Dale L. | "The Prophetic Voice in Jeremy Rifkin's 'Algeny'." Rhetoric Review 9 (1990): 134-148. | |
| Terrill, Robert E. | "Protest, Prophecy, and Prudence in the Rhetoric of Malcolm X." Rhetoric and Public Affairs 4 (2001): 25-53. | |
| Ware, B. L., and Wil A. Linkugel. | "The Rhetorical Persona: Marcus Garvey as Black Moses." Communication Monographs 49 (1982): 50-62. | |
| Warner, Michael, ed. | American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr. The Library of America 108. New York: Library of America / Penguin Putnam, 1999. | |
| White, Eugene E. | "Whitefield's Use of Proofs During the Great Awakening in America." Western Speech 14 (1950): 3-6. | |
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Yarbrough, Stephen R. |
Delightful Conviction: Jonathan Edwards and the Rhetoric of Conversion.Great American Orators 20. New York: Greenwood P, 1993. |
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| Zulick, Margaret D. | "Prophecy and Providence: The Anxiety over Prophetic Authority." Journal of Communication and Religion 26 (2003): 195-207. | |
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| Auld, Graeme A. | "Prophecy in Books: A Rejoinder." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 48 (1990): 31-32. | |
| Barton, J. | Oracles of God: Perceptions of Ancient Prophecy in Israel after the Exile. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1986. | |
| Blenkinsopp, J. | A History of Prophecy in Israel: From the Settlement in the Land to the Hellenistic Period. Philadelphia: Westminster P, 1983. | |
| Brueggemann, Walter. | "Jeremiah's Use of Rhetorical Questions." Journal of Biblical Literature 92 (1973): 358-374. | |
| Carroll, Robert P. | From Chaos to Covenant: Uses of Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah. London: SCM Press, 1981. | |
| ---. | "Inventing the Prophets." Irish Biblical Studies 10 (1988): 24-36. | |
| ---. | "Prophecy and Dissonance: A Theoretical Approach to the Prophetic Tradition." Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentlische Wissenschaft 92 (1980): 108-119. | |
| ---. | When Prophecy Failed: Reactions and Responses to Failure in the Old Testament Prophetic Tradition. London: SCM, 1979. | |
| Coggins, R., A. Phillips, and M. Knibb, eds. | Israel's Prophetic Tradition: Essays in Honor of Peter R. Ackroyd. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1982. | |
| Coote, Robert B. | Amos among the Prophets: Composition and Theology. Philadelphia: Fortress P, 1981. | |
| Diamond, A. R. | The Confessions of Jeremiah in Context: Scenes of Prophetic Drama. JSOT Supplement Series 45. Sheffield: JSOT P, 1987. | |
| Fishelov, D. | "The Prophet as Satirist." Prooftexts 9 (1989): 195-211. | |
| Fretheim, Terence E. | "Jonah and Theodicy." Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentlische Wissenschaft 90 (1978): 227-237. | |
| Gemser, B. | Gemser, B. "The rîb or Controversy-Pattern in Hebrew Mentality." Wisdom in Israel and in the Ancient Near East: Fs. H.H. Rowley. Ed. Martin Noth and D. Winton Thomas. Vetus Testamentum Supplements 3. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1960. 120-137. | |
| Gitay, Yehoshua. | "Deutero-Isaiah: Oral or Written?" Journal of Biblical Literature 99 (1980): 185-197. | |
| ---. | "Reflections on the Study of the Prophetic Discourse: The Question of Isaiah I 2-20." Vetus Testamentum 33 (1983): 207-21. | |
| Greenspahn, F. E. | "Why Prophecy Ceased." Journal of Biblical Literature 108 (1989): 37-49. | |
| Hamborg, G. R. | "Reasons for Judgment in the Oracles against the Nations of the Prophet Isaiah." Vetus Testamentum 31 (1981): 145-159. | |
| Hanson, Paul D. | "Jewish Apocalyptic against Its Near Eastern Environment." Revue Biblique 78 (1971): 31-58. | |
| House, P. R. | Zephaniah: A Prophetic Drama. Sheffield: Almond P, 1988. | |
| Lewin, Ellen Davis. | "Arguing for Authority: A Rhetorical Study of Jeremiah 1.4-19 and 20.7-18." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 32 (1985): 105-119. | |
| Long, Burke O. | "Prophetic Authority as Social Reality." Canon and Authority: Essays in Old Testament Religion and Theology. Ed. George W. Coats and Burke O. Long. Philadelphia: Fortress P, 1977. 3-20. | |
| McConville, J. G. | "Ezra-Nehemiah and the Fulfillment of Prophecy." Vetus Testamentum 36 (1986): 205-224. | |
| Murray, D. F. | "The Rhetoric of Disputation: Re-examination of a Prophetic Genre." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 38 (1987): 95-121. | |
| Nielsen, Kirsten. | Yahweh as Prosecutor and Judge: An Investigation of the Prophetic Lawsuit (rîb -Pattern). Trans. Frederick Cryer. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 9. Sheffield: JSOT, 1978. | |
| North, R. | "Prophecy to Apocalyptic via Zechariah." Congress Volume: Uppsala 1971. Vetus Testamentum Supplement 22. Leiden: Brill, 1972. 47-71. | |
| Overholt, Thomas. | Channels of Prophecy: The Social Dynamics of Prophetic Activity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989. | |
| ---. | "The End of Prophecy: No Players without a Program." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 42 (1988): 103-115. | |
| ---. | "Prophecy in History: The Social Reality of Intermediation." Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 48 (1990): 3-29. | |
| Peckham, Brian. | History and Prophecy: The Development of Late Judean Literary Traditions. New York: Doubleday, 1993. | |
| Petersen, D. L. | Late Israelite Prophecy: Studies in Deutero-Prophetic Literature and in Chronicles. Society of Biblical Literature Monograph Series 23. Missoula, MT: Scholars P, 1977. | |
| ---. | The Roles of Israel's Prophets. JSOT Supplement Series 17. Sheffield: JSOT P, 1981. | |
| Polk, Timothy. | The Prophetic Persona: Jeremiah and the Language of the Self. JSOT Supplement Series 32. Sheffield: JSOT P, 1984. | |
| Ross, J. F. | "Prophecy in Hamath, Israel, and Mari." Harvard Theological Review 63 (1970): 1-28. | |
| Schmidt, W. W. | "rîb." Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament. Vol. 3. Ed. G. Johannes Botterweck and Helmer Ringgren. Trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley and John T. Willis. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978. 84-125. | |
| Silver, M. | Prophets and Markets: The Political Economy of Ancient Israel. The Hague: Kluwer-Nijhoff, 1983. | |
| Weinfeld, Moshe. | "Ancient Near Eastern Patterns in Prophetic Literature." Vetus Testamentum 27 (1977): 178-195. | |
| Westermann, Claus. | Basic Forms of Prophetic Speech. Trans. Hugh Clayton White. Philadelphia: Westminster P, 1967. | |
| Wilson, Robert R. | "From Prophecy to Apocalyptic: Reflections on the Shape of Israelite Religion."Anthropological Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy. Ed. R. C. Culley and Thomas W. Overholt. Semeia 21. Chico, CA: Scholars P, 1982. 79-95. | |
| ---. | Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel. Philadelphia: Fortress P, 1980. | |
| Zulick, Margaret D. | "The Agon of Jeremiah: On the Dialogic Invention of Prophetic Ethos." Quarterly Journal of Speech 78 (1992): 125-148. | |