Daughters of Miriam : women prophets in ancient Israel / Wilda Gafney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gafney, Wilda, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the Bible.

Women prophets.

Women in rabbinical literature.

Women in Christianity.

Physical Description:

x, 222 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2008]

Summary:

Women prophets proclaimed and performed the word of God at formative moments in ancient Israel's history, and were expected in biblical visions of the future. Now they come to the foreground as Wilda C. Gafney explores women's involvement in prophetic activities and sacred roles in ancient Israel, its near eastern environment, and early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism as well.

Contents:

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

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

Female prophetic guilds in context

Musical/funerary guilds

Scribal guilds

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

Prophetic constructions

General observations from Ancient Near Eastern and Ancient Israelite prophetic literature

Summary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-206) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780800662585

080066258X

OCLC:

156832289