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.