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Divination, politics, and ancient Near Eastern empires / edited by Alan Lenzi and Jonathan Stökl.

Contributor(s): Lenzi, Alan [editor.] | Sto¿˜kl, Jonathan, 1977- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Ancient Near East monographs: Publisher: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: x, 209 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781589839960 (paper binding : alk. paper); 158983996X (paper binding : alk. paper)Subject(s): Divination -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 | Mythology, Middle Eastern -- History -- To 1500 | Occultism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Middle East -- Religion | Religion and politics -- Middle East -- History -- To 1500 | Assyro-Babylonian religionDDC classification: 133.309394 LOC classification: BL613 | .D59 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 Stökl -- 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 / Göran 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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Stökl -- 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 / Göran 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

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