What are some good sources on the use of sage vs prophet in biblical prophecy traditions?
Use the Force, Christian. Use your growing search skills. Let us know what you tried already, and what was found by that search, and why it was insufficient for you. How much time did you spend already searching on your own and poking through the results? If it was less than 10 minutes, you've asked others for help too quickly.
I tried Eerdmans Bible Dictionary, Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible, Lexham Bible Dictionary and Believer's Bible Dictionary. I searched for Sage AND Prophet NEAR Prophecy.
You don't get sufficient results because you make your searches too narrow. Prophet and prophecy are the same word. Drop the third term. Search your whole library. Also use Factbook.
Sage ("wise person") is not a commonly used word in connection with prophecy. Are you sure you don't mean "seer"?
Also search the Logos website. Those two terms sage and prophet seem to be the main thing you've been asked to research for some school assignment ("in biblical prophecy traditions" is ancillary and most likely anything you find that mentions both of those terms will be in those traditions, so you can ignore it for now to broaden your search).
If you enter sage prophet (just those two terms, not in quotes) in the logos.com search box it will find you all Logos books that mention both of those terms in their title or description. You'll find a lot to get you going on this project!
If you don't have any of those books in your Library and can't afford to buy more books at this time, try also searching for "sage vs. prophet" (in quotes) on Google. You might be surprised at what you find, and it might lead you down a rabbit trail that could be fruitful. Look also for "sage and prophet" (in quotes), and other variations on that ("prophet and sage", "sages and prophets", "prophets and sages").
Hint: you'll come across the phrase "a Sage is greater than a prophet" several times. Drill down into that. Where did it come from originally? Get lost in the fun of the research of this! That's what academic life is all about. You give up too quickly.
Note: You might also find titles of books that aren't in Logos. Maybe you can find those at a local library. Or you might be able to see enough Preview pages in them on Amazon to get you further along in your learning.
P.S. I knew NOTHING about this topic, nor that phrase I discovered, before I started trying to help you. I spent 10 minutes at it. What I have is a knack for knowing how to search combined with the perseverance to stick with it with different variations until I hit paydirt. You can learn that skill. You've got to want to learn it, though. You have easy pickings here with all these people who will jump at your beck and call, so it's tempting to just keep relying on us over and over and over and over again. I really do want to see you grow in this area, or I wouldn't bother to help you at all.
Another key to learning how to do research: As you follow your research rabbit trail, keep a document with all titles of articles and books that you come across in any Logos search or on any web page or in any Logos.com or Amazon.com title search that look relevant. Then go find those articles or books or whatever excerpts from them you can find online or in Logos, and read, read, read, and take notes as you go.
Hey Rosie! Thanks for the timely reminder: we'll get further by learning to fish than by just being given a fish! It certainly CAN become easy to just hop into the fora and say "hey who can find me this?" but the point is that doing it for ourselves first is how we'll learn to use Logos.
THANKS! [:)]
Probably not related to the OP's question (Biblical traditions), but you run into a proposal quite a bit, as you study both the Mesopotamian and greek god changes. And that is, the shift from national gods (and their prophets and annointed kings), to personal gods, with their sages. That's an over-simplification by me (seers?). But the book below is quite good, in the discussion of the sudden change, during the time of Israel/Judah, covering a whole series:
The Age of the Sages: The Axial Age in Asia and the Near East
Another, I haven't read (on my buy list):
Sage, Priest, Prophet: Religious and Intellectual Leadership in Ancient Israel
And an example of the completion of the shift (also viewed in the Talmud):
Jesus the Sage: The Pilgrimage of Wisdom
