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Divination, politics, and ancient Near Eastern empires / edited by Alan Lenzi, Jonathan Stökl. - 1 online resource (221 pages). - Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Near East Monographs ; number 7 . - Ancient Near East monographs ; v. 7. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Propaganda, prognostication, and planets / Jeffrey L. Cooley -- The King at the crossroads between divination and cosmology / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- Divination as warfare: the use of divination across borders / Jonathan Stokl -- Revisiting Biblical Prophecy, Revealed knowledge pertaining to ritual, and secrecy in light of ancient Mesopotamian Prophetic texts / Alan Lenzi -- Chaoskampf against empire: Yhwh's battle against God (Ezekiel 38-39) as Resistance literature / C.A. Strine -- Propagandistic constructions of empires in the Book of Isaiah / Goran Eidevall -- The theological politics of Deutero-Isaiah / Joseph Blenkinsopp -- The Yehudite collection of Prophetic books and imperial contexts: some observations / Ehud Ben Zvi -- Power, politics and Prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Second Temple Judaism / Alex P. Jassen.

ISBN: 9781589839984 1589839986 158983996X 9781589839960 1589839978 9781589839977

Source: 22573/ctt9rc492 JSTOR

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
To 1500

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Divination--History--Middle East--To 1500.
Mythology, Middle Eastern--History--To 1500.
Occultism--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Religion and politics--History--Middle East--To 1500.
Assyro-Babylonian religion.
Assyro-Babylonian religion.
Divination--History To 1500.--Middle East
Middle East--Religion.
Mythology, Middle Eastern--History--To 1500.
Occultism--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Religion and politics--History--To 1500.--Middle East
RELIGION--Biblical Studies--History & Culture.
Assyro-Babylonian religion.
Divination.
Mythology, Middle Eastern.
Occultism--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Religion.
Religion and politics.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Middle East--Religion.
Middle East.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: BL613 / .D59 2014eb

Dewey Class. No.: 133.309394