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Divination, Politics, and Ancient near Eastern Empires.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ancient near East Monographs; 7 SeriesPublisher: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (221 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781589839984
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Divination, Politics, and Ancient near Eastern EmpiresDDC classification:
  • 133.3
LOC classification:
  • BL613
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Propaganda, Prognostication, and Planets -- The King at the Crossroads between Divination and Cosmology -- Divination as Warfare: The Use of Divination across Borders -- Revisiting Biblical Prophecy, Revealed Knowledge Pertaining to Ritual, and Secrecy in Light of Ancient Mesopotamian Prophetic Texts -- Chaoskampf against Empire: YHWH's Battle against Gog (Ezekiel 38-39) as Resistence Literature -- Propagandistic Constructions of Empires in the Book of Isaiah -- The Theological Politics of Deutero-Isaiah -- The Yehudite Collection of Prophetic Books and Imperial Contexts: Some Observations -- Power, Politics, and Prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism -- Index of Ancient Texts -- Contributors.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Propaganda, Prognostication, and Planets -- The King at the Crossroads between Divination and Cosmology -- Divination as Warfare: The Use of Divination across Borders -- Revisiting Biblical Prophecy, Revealed Knowledge Pertaining to Ritual, and Secrecy in Light of Ancient Mesopotamian Prophetic Texts -- Chaoskampf against Empire: YHWH's Battle against Gog (Ezekiel 38-39) as Resistence Literature -- Propagandistic Constructions of Empires in the Book of Isaiah -- The Theological Politics of Deutero-Isaiah -- The Yehudite Collection of Prophetic Books and Imperial Contexts: Some Observations -- Power, Politics, and Prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism -- Index of Ancient Texts -- Contributors.

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