Nonhuman Animals in Biblical Prophecy

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter looks at how nonhuman animals are used in the latter prophets, particularly in relation to their characterization, role, and purpose. Although the authors wrote anthropocentrically in a culture that had no qualms about using nonhuman animals for work and food, a plethora of animals are integral to the prophecies and lives of the prophets, which gives them a status that is often missing in our own world. Flock and lion metaphors abound, so they are dealt with under their own headings here, as are horses, which normally symbolize war and rarely appear in their own right, aside from humans. A familiar trope in the prophets is that animals take over land and cities previously inhabited by humans and, conversely, are cleared from the land in times of restoration. Nonhuman animals share in human punishment and blessing, though, unfortunately for the animals, humans in blessing consume or use them. Animals can be agents of punishment or of blessing and their punishing sometimes includes consuming humans, either corpses or in predatory attacks. Wicked humans or those under God’s judgment may be likened to animals, as may the blessed, innocent, and/or humbled. Strikingly, nonhuman animals and God occasionally communicate with each other.
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Authors Julie Woods
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/9780191986376.003.0020
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