Divination in Ancient Israel and Its Near Eastern Environment
Author | : Frederick H. Cryer |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1850753539 |
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Author | : Frederick H. Cryer |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1850753539 |
Author | : Frederick H. Cryer |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1994-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567059634 |
In this revealing study, the author suggests that ancient Israel was a 'magic society' like those around it, and similar in many respects to a number of magic-using 'savage' societies studied by modern social anthropology. Although the Old Testament attempts to distinguish between priestly and prophetic divination, this distinction was not sharply drawn in ancient times. References to divination in fact are found in all genres of Israelite literature, implying that many of these practices were performed throughout Israelite society. 'Cryer's investigation of divination in ancient Israel is a masterful synthesis of social and historical analyses of an important yet neglected topic' (Ronald E. Simkins, Catholic Biblical Quarterly).
Author | : John H. Walton |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1493414364 |
Leading evangelical scholar John Walton surveys the cultural context of the ancient Near East, bringing insight to the interpretation of specific Old Testament passages. This new edition of a top-selling textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout to reflect the refined thinking of a mature scholar. It includes over 30 illustrations. Students and pastors who want to deepen their understanding of the Old Testament will find this a helpful and instructive study.
Author | : John Kaltner |
Publisher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2019-01-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0884143848 |
Beyond Babel provides a general introduction to and overview of the languages that are significant for the study of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel. Included are essays on biblical and inscriptional Hebrew, Akkadian, Northwest Semitic dialects (Ammonite, Edomite, and Moabite), Arabic, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hittite, Phoenician, postbiblical Hebrew, and Ugaritic. Each chapter in the volume shares a common format, including an overview of the language, a discussion of its significance for the Hebrew Bible, and a list of ancient sources and modern resources for further study of the language. A general introduction by John Huehnergard discusses the importance of the study of Near Eastern languages for biblical scholarship, helping to make the volume an ideal resource for persons beginning an in-depth study of the Hebrew Bible.
Author | : Michael D. Swartz |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2014-05-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 147985557X |
This book explores the belief in ancient Judaism that God embedded hidden signs and visual clues in the natural world that could be read by human beings and interpreted according to complex systems.
Author | : Vita Daphna Arbel |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791486850 |
Beholders of Divine Secrets provides a fascinating exploration of the enigmatic Hekhalot and Merkavah literature, the Jewish mystical writings of late antiquity. Vita Daphna Arbel delves into the unique nature of the mystical teachings, experiences, revelations, and spiritual exegesis presented in this literature. While previous scholarship has demonstrated the connection between Hekhalot and Merkavah mysticism and parallel traditions in Rabbinical writings, the Dead Sea Scrolls, apocalyptic, early Christian, and Gnostic sources, this work points out additional mythological traditions that resonate in this literature. Arbel suggests that mythological patterns of expression, as well as themes and models rooted in Near Eastern mythological traditions are employed, in a spiritualized fashion, to communicate mystical content. The possible cultural and social context of the Hekhalot and Merkavah mysticism and its composers is discussed.
Author | : Justus Theodore Ghormley |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2021-11-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004472568 |
In Scribes Writing Scripture, Justus Theodore Ghormley describes how the ancient Judean scribes who expanded the Book of Jeremiah through duplication functioned as textual diviners akin to the divining scribal scholars of the ancient Near East.
Author | : David W. Baker |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2004-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 080102871X |
Leading scholars provide an overview of current issues in Old Testament studies.
Author | : L. Juliana Claassens |
Publisher | : SBL Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2021-05-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0884144747 |
Multifaceted insights into female life in prophetic contexts Both prophets and prophetesses shared God’s divine will with the people of Israel, yet the voices of these women were often forgotten due to later prohibitions against women teaching in public. This latest volume of the Bible and Women series focuses on the intersection of gender and prophecy in the Former Prophets (Joshua to 2 Kings) as well as in the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Essays examine how women appear in the iconography of the ancient world, the historical background of the phenomenon of prophecy, political and religious resistance by women in the biblical text, and gender symbolism and constructions in prophetic material as well as the metaphorical discourse of God. Contributors Michaela Bauks, Athalya Brenner-Idan, Ora Brison, L. Juliana Claassens, Marta García Fernández, Irmtraud Fischer, Maria Häusl, Rainer Kessler, Nancy C. Lee, Hanne Løland Levinson, Christl M. Maier, Ilse Müllner, Martti Nissinen, Ombretta Pettigiani, Ruth Poser, Benedetta Rossi, Silvia Schroer, and Omer Sergi draw insight into the texts from a range of innovative gender-oriented approaches.
Author | : Diana Lipton |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 1850759588 |
This is an inpretation of five Genesis dreams as a response, at once highly personal and ardently political, to national crisis.