Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Engaging the Battle -- PART I: CONTRADICTION, COMMUNITY, AND CANON -- 1 Contradiction and Intertextuality -- Prophet against Prophet -- Contradiction: The Nature of Reality and Canonical Process -- Intertextuality and Canonical Hermeneutics -- Conclusions: Canon and Chaos -- 2 Reader Response and Community of Interpretation -- The Bible as Story -- Reader-Response Criticism -- The Community of Interpretation -- Conclusions: The Readers' Canon -- 3 The Fall and Rise of Canons -- The Fall of the Canon: The Problem of Canon -- The Rise of Canons and Their Canonical Communities -- Conclusions: God and Canon Power -- PART II: NEGOTIATING READINGS IN TRUE AND FALSE PROPHECY -- 4 True and False Prophecy in Canonical Criticism -- The Unfolding Story of Research in True and False Prophecy -- The Ethos of Mythos and the Politics of Canon -- Conclusions: Truth in Canon Politics -- 5 Swords into Plowshares into Swords -- Negotiating Readings: Rationale and Method -- Tradition-Gestalt and the Reader -- The Tradition-Gestalt of the Plowshare Passages -- Canon as Function: Diachronic Readings of the Plowshare Passages -- Canon as Context: Synchronic Reading of the Plowshare Passages -- Conclusions: Canon Hermeneutics -- 6 A Final Reading: Which Prophet? Whose Truth? -- Postscript: Instead of a Conclusion -- "Here I Stand": Under the Authority of the Community -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.