When gods speak to men : : divine speech according to textual sources in the ancient Mediterranean basin / / edited by Stéphanie Anthonioz, Alice Mouton, Daniel Petit.

• Superior document: Orbis biblicus et orientalis ; 289
• VerfasserIn: Anthonioz, Stéphanie,
• TeilnehmendeR: Anthonioz, Stéphanie,; Mouton, Alice,; Petit, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Leuven ;, Paris ;, Bristol : : Peeters,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Orbis biblicus et orientalis ; 289.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 138 pages).

"The nature of divine speech in Antiquity in the Mediterranean Basin has often been the object of scholarly analysis, especially regarding its divinatory context and questions of genre and rhetoric. The present volume not only provokes a dialogue with this past research, but seeks to respond to a problem that has received little consideration until now: the articulation of divine speech with the various forms of its representation (linguistic, literary, and material). The aim is to analyze the nature of divine speech through its materiality and the impact of the latter on the former's definition and evolution." --back cover

Table of Contents

When Egyptian gods speak: Divine discourse in context / Dominique Lefevre -- Divine speech in Hittite dreams / Alive Mouton -- 'Now see how the mighty storm-god my lord is running before me:' Revelation of divine power in Hittite historiography / Amir Gilan -- Oracles as artefacts: The material aspect of prophecy / Martti Nissinen -- Biblical prophecy: Writing and media associated / Stéphanie Anthonioz -- Language of gods, Pythian Apollo and Plato's Cratylus / Claire Le Feuvre -- God's secrataries: On preserving oracles in the Greek oracular shrines during Hellenistic and Roman times / Manfred Lasgourges -- Divine signs in ancient Rome - or how to put the voices of the gods into words / Romain Loriol