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Since the 1990's there has been an emphasis on the study of ancient Israelite prophecy in its ancient Near East context. Prophecy in the Ancient Near East is the first book-length study that compares prophecy in the ancient Near East by focusing on texts from Mari, the Neo-Assyrian State Archives, and the Hebrew Bible. The author analyzes prophecy in each culture independently before comparisons are made. This method demonstrates how prophecy is a part of the wider system of divination, but also shows where scholarship has unduly imported concepts found in one corpus to the other two. This method, for example, calls into question the supposed link between music and prophecy from the Hebrew Bible to the ancient Near East. This work provides an up-to-date analysis of ancient Near Eastern, including Israelite and Judean, prophecy to scholars and students alike. 'I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book, and I can highly recommend it to anyone interested in prophecy in Israel and the ancient Near East.' Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, University of Aberdeen, Review of Biblical Literature 'The content of Jonathan Stökl’s book...testifies to the value of the book for the studies of prophecy in the ancient Near East.' Wojciech Pikor, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, The Biblical Annals

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Divination --- Mythology, Middle Eastern --- Occultism --- Religion and politics --- Assyro-Babylonian religion. --- History --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Middle East --- Religion. --- Religion, Assyro-Babylonian --- Religions --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and religion --- Religion --- Art, Black (Magic) --- Arts, Black (Magic) --- Black art (Magic) --- Black arts (Magic) --- Occult, The --- Occult sciences --- Supernatural --- New Age movement --- Parapsychology --- Middle Eastern mythology --- Mythology, Oriental --- Oriental mythology --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Worship --- Political aspects

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This volume brings together experts in the study of ancient prayers and divination methods to analyse the variety of means by which human beings sought to communicate with their gods and by which the gods were seen to communicate with their worshippers. In a departure from previous scholarship, the volume brings together the study of prophecy, as an intuitive form of divination, with the study of technical methods of communication and other forms of institutionalised communication such as prayer. Such a format allows divine-human communication to be studied in both directions simultaneously: t

Mythology, Middle Eastern --- Middle Eastern mythology --- Mythology, Oriental --- Oriental mythology --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Middle East --- Religion.

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Religious studies --- Sociology of religion