Prophets And Prophecy In The Late Antique Near East

Author : Jae Hee Han
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009297759
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East written by Jae Hee Han and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an interdisciplinary account of prophecy as a topic of discourse among various late antique Near Eastern communities. Against assumptions that prophecy ceased in the past, this book argues that it remained a topic of discourse among various Near Eastern communities.

Author : Jae Han
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781009297721
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East written by Jae Han and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Jae Han investigates how various Late Antique Near Eastern communities - Jews, Christians, Manichaeans, and philosophers -- discussed prophets and revelation, among themselves and against each other. Bringing an interdisciplinary, historical approach to the topic, he interrogates how these communities used discourses of prophethood and revelation to negotiate their place in the world. Han tracks the shifting contours of prophecy and contextualizes the emergence of orality as the privileged medium among rabbis, Manichaeans, and 'Jewish Christian' communities. He also explores the contemporary interest in divinatory knowledge among Neoplatonists. Offering a critical re-reading of key Manichaean texts, Han shows how Manichaeans used concepts of prophethood and revelation within specific rhetorical agendas to address urgent issues facing their communities. His book highlights the contingent production of discourse and shows how contemporary theories of rhetoric and textuality can be applied to the study of ancient texts.

Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884143414
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East written by Martti Nissinen and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, expanded edition of a classic reference tool This volume of more than 170 documents of prophecy from the ancient Near East brings together a representative sample of written documents from Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Egypt dating to the second and first millennia BCE. Nissinen's collection provides nonspecialist readers clear translations, transliterations, and discussions of oracles reports and collections, quotations of prophetic messages in letters and literature, and texts that reference persons with prophetic titles. This second edition includes thirty-four new texts. Features: Modern, idiomatic, and readable English translations Thirty-four new translations Contributions of West Semitic, Egyptian, and Luwian sources from C. L. Seow, Robert K. Ritner, and H. Craig Melchert

Author : Jonathan Stökl
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004229930
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophecy in the Ancient Near East written by Jonathan Stökl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s there has been an emphasis on the study of ancient Israelite prophecy in its ancient Near East context. Prophecy in the Ancient Near East is the first book-length study that compares prophecy in the ancient Near East by focusing on texts from Mari, the Neo-Assyrian State Archives, and the Hebrew Bible. The author analyzes prophecy in each culture independently before comparisons are made. This method demonstrates how prophecy is a part of the wider system of divination, but also shows where scholarship has unduly imported concepts found in one corpus to the other two. This method, for example, calls into question the supposed link between music and prophecy from the Hebrew Bible to the ancient Near East. This work provides an up-to-date analysis of ancient Near Eastern, including Israelite and Judean, prophecy to scholars and students alike. "I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book, and I can highly recommend it to anyone interested in prophecy in Israel and the ancient Near East." Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, University of Aberdeen, Review of Biblical Literature "The content of Jonathan Stökl’s book...testifies to the value of the book for the studies of prophecy in the ancient Near East." Wojciech Pikor, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, The Biblical Annals

Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198808550
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Prophecy written by Martti Nissinen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A study of the phenomenon of prophecy as documented in ancient Near Eastern texts and the Hebrew Bible as well as Greek sources, from the twenty-first century BCE to the second century CE.

Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context written by Martti Nissinen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles are written from manifold perspectives, including methodological, socioreligious, and anthropological, as well as historical viewpoints."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Oxford Old Testament Seminar
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567473643
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel written by Oxford Old Testament Seminar and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important work on Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel is the product of an impressive international team of twenty-three outstanding scholars, most of whom are well-known, established names, while a few are able, younger scholars beginning to make their mark on the field. The volume approaches its subject from a remarkable number of different angles, with essays ranging from Israel's ancient Near Eastern background right through to the New Testament, but the majority of essays concentrate on Prophecy and the Prophets in the Old Testament. Particular attention is paid to the following subjects: Prophecy amongst Israel's Ancient Near Eastern Neighbours; Female Prophets in both Israel and the Ancient Near East; Israelite Prophecy in the Light of modern Sociological, Anthropological and Psychological Insights; Deuteronomy 18.9-22, the Prophets and Scripture; Elijah, Elisha and Prophetic Succession; the Theology of Amos; Hosea and the Baal cu All the contributions, previously unpublished, arise from papers delivered at the Oxford Old Testament seminar.

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Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1589837770
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prophets Male and Female written by and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because gender is an essential component of societies of all times and places, it is no surprise that every prophetic expression in the ancient social world was a gendered one. In this volume scholars of the biblical literature and of the ancient Mediterranean consider a wide array of prophetic phenomena. In addition to prophetic texts of the Hebrew Bible, the essays also look at prophecy in ancient Mesopotamia and early Christianity. Using the most current theoretical categories, the volume demonstrates how essential a broad definition of gender is for understanding its connection to both the delivery and the content of ancient prophecy. Attention to gender dynamics will continue to reveal the fluidity of prophetic gender performance and to open up the ancient contexts of prophetic texts. The contributors are Roland Boer, Corrine Carvalho, Lester L. Grabbe, Anselm C. Hagedorn, Esther J. Hamori, Dale Launderville, Antti Marjanen, Martti Nissinen, Jonathan Stökl, Hanna Tervanotko, and Ilona Zsolnay.

Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191846083
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Prophecy written by Martti Nissinen and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the phenomenon of prophecy as documented in ancient Near Eastern texts and the Hebrew Bible as well as Greek sources, from the twenty-first century BCE to the second century CE.

Author : Matthijs de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047422619
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isaiah among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets written by Matthijs de Jong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comparison between the earliest parts of the book of Isaiah and the Assyrian prophecies, this book maintains that ancient Israelite prophecy, of which Isaiah was an exponent, was much in conformity with ancient Near Eastern prophecy in general.