RT Book
T1 Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives
A1 Nissinen, Martti 1959-
LA English
PP Oxford, UK
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1778588166
AB This book is a comprehensive treatment of the ancient prophetic phenomenon as it comes to us through biblical, Near Eastern, and Greek sources. Once a distinctly biblical concept, prophecy is today acknowledged as yet another form of divination and a phenomenon that can be found all over the ancient Eastern Mediterranean. Even Greek oracle, traditionally discussed separately from biblical and Mesopotamian prophecy, is essentially part of the same picture. The book gives an up-to-date presentation of textual sources, whether cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, Greek inscriptions, or ancient historians, the number of which has increased substantially in recent times. In addition, the book includes comparative essays on topics such as prophetic ecstasy; temples as venues of prophetic performances; prophets and political rulers; and the prophets’ gender which can be either male, female, or non-gendered. The book argues for a common category of ancient Eastern Mediterranean prophecy, even though the fragmentary and secondary nature of the sources allows only a restricted view to it. The ways prophetic divination manifests itself in ancient sources depend not only on the socio-religious position of the prophets but also on the genre and purpose of the sources. The book shows that, even though the view of the ancient prophetic landscape is restricted by the fragmentary and secondary nature of the sources, it is possible to reconstruct essential features of prophetic divination
OP 480
SN 9780198808558
K1 Classical history / classical civilisation
K1 Christianity
K1 Old Testaments
K1 Ancient History
K1 prophecy
K1 divination
K1 oracle
K1 Hebrew Bible
K1 Delphi
K1 Didyma
K1 Dodona
K1 Claros
K1 ecstasy
K1 gender