Karl Marx and Leo Tolstoy never met each other, yet within their social criticisms, there is a component of anarchism. This paper asks if Marx’s and Tolstoy’s anarchistic ideas be better understood if we think of them as a form of social prophecy. This paper establishes a three component set of criteria. I analyze Marx and Tolstoy on three criteria: prophetic revelation, revolutionary doctrine,...

I would also have liked to have known what Burgel and Maulitz, who wrote the most interesting essays, make of the co-existence of lay and scientific concepts of pathology. Buirgel shows how Prophetic and Galenic systems intersected in Arabic medicine: orthodox Muslims were obliged to question whether rational, secular therapies were compatible with pious striving and trust in God's omnipotence....

The influence of Eric Griffiths looms large in this book. In his 1989 study The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry, Griffiths examines the negotiation between spoken and written language that is central to the reading of Victorian poetry. In The Art of Eloquence, Matthew Bevis uses a similarly comparative approach to the languages of speech and writing as the basis for his analysis of the relati...

This Special Issue of Religions focuses on the reception and contemporary significance Hebrew prophets prophetic literature Bible/Old Testament [...]