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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lenzi, Alan, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Ancient Near East monographs

Society of Biblical Literature ancient Near East monographs ; Volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Divination--Middle East--History--To 1500.

Divination.

Religion and politics.

History.

Mythology, Middle Eastern.

Middle East.

Mythology, Middle Eastern--History--To 1500.

Occultism--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Occultism.

Middle East--Religion.

Religion.

Religion and politics--Middle East--History--To 1500.

Assyro-Babylonian religion.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 209 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2014]

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 Stokl

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 / Goran 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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

158983996X

9781589839960

9781589839977

1589839978

OCLC:

874835467

Publisher Number:

99960450874