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Divination, politics, and ancient Near Eastern empires /

The essays in this volume consider how the ancient imperial setting of the Hebrew Bible influenced prophetic and divinatory communication between the divine and human realms and how this was put to use as and influenced by propaganda from those in power. Drawing upon diplomatic correspondence in sec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lenzi, Alan (Editor ), Stökl, Jonathan, 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.
Colección:Ancient Near East monographs ; v. 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Propaganda, prognostication, and planets / Jeffrey L. Cooley
  • The King at the crossroads between divination and cosmology / Beate Pongratz-Leisten
  • Divination as warfare: the use of divination across borders / Jonathan Stokl
  • Revisiting Biblical Prophecy, Revealed knowledge pertaining to ritual, and secrecy in light of ancient Mesopotamian Prophetic texts / Alan Lenzi
  • Chaoskampf against empire: Yhwh's battle against God (Ezekiel 38-39) as Resistance literature / C.A. Strine
  • Propagandistic constructions of empires in the Book of Isaiah / Goran Eidevall
  • The theological politics of Deutero-Isaiah / Joseph Blenkinsopp
  • The Yehudite collection of Prophetic books and imperial contexts: some observations / Ehud Ben Zvi
  • Power, politics and Prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism / Alex P. Jassen.