Divination in Ancient Israel and Its Near Eastern Environment
Author : Frederick H. Cryer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1850753539
Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern Environment
Author : Frederick H. Cryer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567059634
Book Description
In this revealing study, the author suggests that ancient Israel was a 'magic society' like those around it, and similar in many respects to a number of magic-using 'savage' societies studied by modern social anthropology. Although the Old Testament attempts to distinguish between priestly and prophetic divination, this distinction was not sharply drawn in ancient times. References to divination in fact are found in all genres of Israelite literature, implying that many of these practices were performed throughout Israelite society. 'Cryer's investigation of divination in ancient Israel is a masterful synthesis of social and historical analyses of an important yet neglected topic' (Ronald E. Simkins, Catholic Biblical Quarterly).
Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament
Author : John H. Walton
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493414364
Book Description
Leading evangelical scholar John Walton surveys the cultural context of the ancient Near East, bringing insight to the interpretation of specific Old Testament passages. This new edition of a top-selling textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout to reflect the refined thinking of a mature scholar. It includes over 30 illustrations. Students and pastors who want to deepen their understanding of the Old Testament will find this a helpful and instructive study.
Beyond Babel
Author : John Kaltner
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0884143848
Book Description
Beyond Babel provides a general introduction to and overview of the languages that are significant for the study of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel. Included are essays on biblical and inscriptional Hebrew, Akkadian, Northwest Semitic dialects (Ammonite, Edomite, and Moabite), Arabic, Aramaic, Egyptian, Hittite, Phoenician, postbiblical Hebrew, and Ugaritic. Each chapter in the volume shares a common format, including an overview of the language, a discussion of its significance for the Hebrew Bible, and a list of ancient sources and modern resources for further study of the language. A general introduction by John Huehnergard discusses the importance of the study of Near Eastern languages for biblical scholarship, helping to make the volume an ideal resource for persons beginning an in-depth study of the Hebrew Bible.
The Signifying Creator
Author : Michael D. Swartz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 147985557X
Book Description
This book explores the belief in ancient Judaism that God embedded hidden signs and visual clues in the natural world that could be read by human beings and interpreted according to complex systems.
Beholders of Divine Secrets
Author : Vita Daphna Arbel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791486850
Book Description
Beholders of Divine Secrets provides a fascinating exploration of the enigmatic Hekhalot and Merkavah literature, the Jewish mystical writings of late antiquity. Vita Daphna Arbel delves into the unique nature of the mystical teachings, experiences, revelations, and spiritual exegesis presented in this literature. While previous scholarship has demonstrated the connection between Hekhalot and Merkavah mysticism and parallel traditions in Rabbinical writings, the Dead Sea Scrolls, apocalyptic, early Christian, and Gnostic sources, this work points out additional mythological traditions that resonate in this literature. Arbel suggests that mythological patterns of expression, as well as themes and models rooted in Near Eastern mythological traditions are employed, in a spiritualized fashion, to communicate mystical content. The possible cultural and social context of the Hekhalot and Merkavah mysticism and its composers is discussed.
Scribes Writing Scripture
Author : Justus Theodore Ghormley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004472568
Book Description
In Scribes Writing Scripture, Justus Theodore Ghormley describes how the ancient Judean scribes who expanded the Book of Jeremiah through duplication functioned as textual diviners akin to the divining scribal scholars of the ancient Near East.
The Face of Old Testament Studies
Author : David W. Baker
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 21,35 MB
Release : 2004-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080102871X
Book Description
Leading scholars provide an overview of current issues in Old Testament studies.
Prophecy and Gender in the Hebrew Bible
Author : L. Juliana Claassens
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0884144747
Book Description
Multifaceted insights into female life in prophetic contexts Both prophets and prophetesses shared God’s divine will with the people of Israel, yet the voices of these women were often forgotten due to later prohibitions against women teaching in public. This latest volume of the Bible and Women series focuses on the intersection of gender and prophecy in the Former Prophets (Joshua to 2 Kings) as well as in the Latter Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Essays examine how women appear in the iconography of the ancient world, the historical background of the phenomenon of prophecy, political and religious resistance by women in the biblical text, and gender symbolism and constructions in prophetic material as well as the metaphorical discourse of God. Contributors Michaela Bauks, Athalya Brenner-Idan, Ora Brison, L. Juliana Claassens, Marta García Fernández, Irmtraud Fischer, Maria Häusl, Rainer Kessler, Nancy C. Lee, Hanne Løland Levinson, Christl M. Maier, Ilse Müllner, Martti Nissinen, Ombretta Pettigiani, Ruth Poser, Benedetta Rossi, Silvia Schroer, and Omer Sergi draw insight into the texts from a range of innovative gender-oriented approaches.
Revisions of the Night
Author : Diana Lipton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1850759588
Book Description
This is an inpretation of five Genesis dreams as a response, at once highly personal and ardently political, to national crisis.
