Author : Robert R. Wilson
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451417456
Using comparative anthropology to get at the social dimensions of prophetic activity, Robert Wilson's study brings the study of Isrealite prophecy to a new level. Looking at both modern societies and Ancient Near Eastern ones, Wilson sketches the nature of prophetic activity, its social location, and its social functions. He then shows how these features appear in Israelite prophecy and sketches a history of prophecy in Israel.
Author : Oxford Old Testament Seminar
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567473643
This important work on Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel is the product of an impressive international team of twenty-three outstanding scholars, most of whom are well-known, established names, while a few are able, younger scholars beginning to make their mark on the field. The volume approaches its subject from a remarkable number of different angles, with essays ranging from Israel's ancient Near Eastern background right through to the New Testament, but the majority of essays concentrate on Prophecy and the Prophets in the Old Testament. Particular attention is paid to the following subjects: Prophecy amongst Israel's Ancient Near Eastern Neighbours; Female Prophets in both Israel and the Ancient Near East; Israelite Prophecy in the Light of modern Sociological, Anthropological and Psychological Insights; Deuteronomy 18.9-22, the Prophets and Scripture; Elijah, Elisha and Prophetic Succession; the Theology of Amos; Hosea and the Baal cu All the contributions, previously unpublished, arise from papers delivered at the Oxford Old Testament seminar.
Author : Joseph Blenkinsopp
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : Robert Alter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 879 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 2013-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0393082695
Chronicles the ancient history of Israel and its prophets, from Samson to Elijah.
Author : Johannes Lindblom
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
"Well known for his detailed studies of various aspects of the Old Testament prophecy, an eminent continental scholar here draws together the fruits of many years' work in an authoritative book on the prophetic movement as a whole. It is his thesis that prophecy is not an exclusively Israelite phenomenon but may be found in a variety of cultures and regions and at different stages of religious development. Even though such prophecy appears in widely varied manifestations, it is marked by certain characteristic psychological features" -- ‡c From publisher's description.
Author : Joseph Blenkinsopp
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664256395
This revised and enlarged edition of Joseph Blenkinsopp's 1983 book will be a welcome addition to the libraries of serious Biblical scholars. The author critically recounts the history of Israelite prophecy from a social-historical perspective.
Author : Theodore Henry Robinson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 13,21 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Bible
ISBN :
Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0884143414
A new, expanded edition of a classic reference tool This volume of more than 170 documents of prophecy from the ancient Near East brings together a representative sample of written documents from Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Egypt dating to the second and first millennia BCE. Nissinen's collection provides nonspecialist readers clear translations, transliterations, and discussions of oracles reports and collections, quotations of prophetic messages in letters and literature, and texts that reference persons with prophetic titles. This second edition includes thirty-four new texts. Features: Modern, idiomatic, and readable English translations Thirty-four new translations Contributions of West Semitic, Egyptian, and Luwian sources from C. L. Seow, Robert K. Ritner, and H. Craig Melchert
Author : Mignon R. Jacobs
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1589837509
This collection of essays examines the relationship of prophecy to the Deuteronomistic History (Deuteronomy–2 Kings), including the historical reality of prophecy that stands behind the text and the portrayal of prophecy within the literature itself. The contributors use a number of perspectives to explore the varieties of intermediation and the cultic setting of prophecy in the ancient Near East; the portrayal of prophecy in pentateuchal traditions, pre-Deuteronomistic sources, and other Near Eastern literature; the diverse perspectives reflected within the Deuteronomistic History; and the possible Persian period setting for the final form of the Deuteronomistic History. Together the collection represents the current state of an important, ongoing discussion. The contributors are Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman, Mignon R. Jacobs, Mark Leuchter, Martti Nissinen, Mark O’Brien, Raymond F. Person Jr., Thomas C. Römer, Marvin A. Sweeney, and Rannfrid Thelle.
Author : David Petersen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 1981-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567492680
This book offers a new and fruitful approach to a major area of Old Testament study. Expressing dissatisfaction with current critical theories of Israelite prophecy, which have regularly depended on the categories of office and charisma to designate essential features, Petersen looks instead to modern 'role theory' for a conceptual apparatus which can take account not only of what prophets regularly did in common but also of the significant variety apparent in Israelite prophetic performance.
