Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. 1. Poets and Prophets: An Overview 1
5. 2. Imagining Prophecy 26
6. 3. David the Prophet 45
7. 4. Ancient Greek Poetry, Prophecy, and Concepts of Theory 56
8. 5. Virgil’s Messianic Eclogue 65
9. 6. A Mantic Manifesto: The Sura of “The Poets” and the Qur’anic Foundations of Prophetic Authority 75
10. 7. The Meaning of MutanabbJ 120
11. 8. The Poet as Prophet in Medieval Hebrew Literature 140
12. 9. The Nature of Prophecy in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s 151
13. 10. After the Middle Ages: Prophetic Authority and Human Fallibility in Renaissance Epic 163
14. Notes 185
15. Contributors 247
16. Index 249