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Daughters of Miriam : women prophets in ancient Israel /

There are untold numbers of female prophets hiding in the masculine grammar and androcentric focus of the Hebrew scriptures. There are women-prophets in the communities around biblical Israel, existing for hundreds of years and even a thousand years before the Israelite and Judean prophets recorded...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gafney, Wilda, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2008]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview of Biblical prophets and related roles
  • Definitions of prophet
  • Technical vocabulary
  • Religious intermediaries
  • Summary
  • Female prophecy around biblical Israel
  • Scope and limitations of data
  • Oracles of female prophets in Mari
  • Female prophets in Mari
  • Assyrian (Ninevite) oracles concerning Esarhaddon
  • Assyrian (Ninevite) oracles concerning Ashurbanipal
  • Female prophets in Nineveh
  • Female prophets in Emar
  • General observations on ANE and Israelite female prophets
  • Summary
  • Female prophets in the Hebrew scriptures
  • Miriam (Miryam)
  • Deborah (D'vorah)
  • Huldah (Chuldah)
  • HaNeviy'ah (the anonymous woman-prophet)
  • Daughters who prophesy in Ezekiel (Yechezaʻel)
  • Daughters who will prophesy in Joel (Yoʻel)
  • No'adiah
  • Daughters of Heman
  • Summary
  • Female prophetic guilds in context
  • Musical/funerary guilds
  • Scribal guilds
  • Summary
  • Rabbinic and Christian trajectories
  • Navi'/Nevi'ah in rabbinic texts
  • Navi'/Nevi'ah in the Mishnah
  • Navi'/Nevi'ah in the Midrash
  • Navi'/Nevi'ah in the Talmuds
  • Prophetis in early Christian texts
  • Summary
  • Prophetic constructions
  • General observations from Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Israelite prophetic literature
  • Prophetic constructions
  • Summary.