“Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela” : : Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period /

“Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela” : : Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period / / ed. by Hans Barstad, Robert P. Gordon.

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Thus Speaks Ishtar is a collection of essays about prophets and prophecy in the ancient Near East during the “Neo-Assyrian Period.” This was the time when some of Israel’s greatest prophets emerged, and we also have from the same general period a number of prophetic texts found on the site of the an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Atkinson, Jason,
Barstad, Hans M.,
Becking, Bob,
Crouch, C. L.,
Gordon, Robert P.,
Hamborg, Graham,
Hilber, John W.,
Marlow, Hilary,
Nissinen, Martti,
Reimer, David J.,
Schaper, Joachim,
Stökl, Jonathan,
Tiemeyer, Lena-Sofia,
Williamson, H. G. M.,
HerausgeberIn:
Barstad, Hans,
Gordon, Robert P.,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Prophecy as Construct, Ancient and Modern
  • Prophecy in the Mari and Nineveh Archives
  • Prophecy in K1285? Re-evaluating the Divine Speech Episodes of Nabû
  • Hosea and the Assyrians
  • Micah in Neo-Assyrian Light
  • Ištar and the Motif of the Cosmological Warrior Assurbanipal’s Adaptation of Enuma Elish
  • The Post-722 and Late Pre-exilic Compositions Underlying the Amos-Text
  • Royal Cultic Prophecy in Assyria, Judah, and Egypt
  • Ecology, Theology, Society Physical, Religious, and Social Disjuncture in Biblical and Neo-Assyrian Prophetic Texts
  • The Prophet Micah and Political Society
  • Prophecy in Israel and Assyria: Are We Comparing Apples and Pears? The Materiality of Writing and the Avoidance of Parallelomania
  • “I Have Rained Stones and Fiery Glow on Their Heads!” Celestial and Meteorological Prophecy in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
  • Were the Neo-Assyrian Prophets Intercessors? A Comparative Study of Neo-Assyrian and Hebrew Texts
  • Isaiah: Prophet of Weal or Woe?
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Scripture
  • Index of Other Ancient Sources

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