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Cover 1 Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Preface and Acknowledgments 8 Contents 12 List of Abbreviations 14 Part I: Theory 22 1: Constructing Prophetic Divination 24 Prophecy as a Construct 24 Historical Phenomenon and Scholarly Concept 24 Hebrew Bible, Ancient Near East, and Greece 27 Prophecy as Divination 31 Why Divination? 31 Divination and Magic 34 Two Types of Divination? 35 Prophets as Intermediaries 40 What Is Prophecy? 40 Who Were the Prophets? 45 On Comparative Studies 64 Why Do We Compare? Or: What Do We Want to Know? 64 What Do We Compare? Or: What Can Be Known? 68 How Do We Compare? Or: How Can We Know What We Want to Know? 69 Sources, Genre, and Purpose 72 Part II: Sources 76 2: Ancient Near Eastern Sources 78 Lexical Lists And Omen Texts 78 Lexical Lists 78 Omen Texts 81 Legal and Administrative Texts 83 Ritual Texts 89 Letters 94 Letters from Mari 95 A Letter from Amarna 106 Neo-Assyrian Letters 108 Letters from Lachish 113 WRITTEN ORACLES 114 Oracles from Esnunna 115 Oracles from Assyria 116 Literary Prophecy 125 Literary Descriptions of Prophecy 125 Literary Predictive Texts 132 3: Greek Sources 137 Epigra

Author

MARTTI NISSINEN

Published

2017

Language

EN