The Akkadian Prophecy
Author: Nicole Bedford
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 0359806120
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Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel
Author: Robert R. Wilson
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published:
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781451417456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing comparative anthropology to get at the social dimensions of prophetic activity, Robert Wilson's study brings the study of Isrealite prophecy to a new level. Looking at both modern societies and Ancient Near Eastern ones, Wilson sketches the nature of prophetic activity, its social location, and its social functions. He then shows how these features appear in Israelite prophecy and sketches a history of prophecy in Israel.
Fictional Akkadian Autobiography
Author: Tremper Longman
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780931464416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThat autobiography in ancient literature is fictional has long been recognized. The purpose of Longman's study is to delineate the genre of fictional autobiography in Akkadian texts with similar texts from other ancient Near Eastern cultures. Included are the texts of all relevant fictional Akkadian autobiographies, as well as an appendix containing English translations of them. The results of the study are of interest to Assyriologists, but also have implications for students of comparative literature and the Bible.
The Apocalyptic Imagination
Author: John J. Collins
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 1998-03-26
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780802843715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Apocalyptic Imagination by John Collins is one of the most widely praised studies of Jewish apocalyptic literature ever written. This second edition represents a complete rewriting and a new chapter on the Dead Sea Scrolls.h
Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East
Author: Martti Nissinen
Publisher: SBL Press
Published: 2019-07-09
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0884143414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new, expanded edition of a classic reference tool This volume of more than 170 documents of prophecy from the ancient Near East brings together a representative sample of written documents from Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Egypt dating to the second and first millennia BCE. Nissinen's collection provides nonspecialist readers clear translations, transliterations, and discussions of oracles reports and collections, quotations of prophetic messages in letters and literature, and texts that reference persons with prophetic titles. This second edition includes thirty-four new texts. Features: Modern, idiomatic, and readable English translations Thirty-four new translations Contributions of West Semitic, Egyptian, and Luwian sources from C. L. Seow, Robert K. Ritner, and H. Craig Melchert
Ancient Prophecy
Author: Martti Nissinen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 469
ISBN-13: 0198808550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnnotation A study of the phenomenon of prophecy as documented in ancient Near Eastern texts and the Hebrew Bible as well as Greek sources, from the twenty-first century BCE to the second century CE.
From Revelation to Canon
Author: James C. VanderKam
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780391041363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays collected in "From Revelation to Canon" include several studies of passages in the Hebrew Bible, the history of the high priesthood, calendars and festivals, 1 Enoch, and the Book of Jubilees. A previously unpublished paper examines the evidence for the development of a canon of scripture in Judaism. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Creation Accounts in the Ancient Near East and in the Bible
Author: Richard J. Clifford SJ
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2023-12-07
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1666786586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKing and Messiah as Son of God
Author: Adela Yarbro Collins
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2008-11-03
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0802807720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the history of the idea that the king and later the messiah is Son of God, from its origins in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology to its Christian appropriation in the New Testament. Both highly regarded scholars, Adela Yarbro Collins and John J. Collins argue that Jesus was called "the Son of God" precisely because he was believed to be the messianic king. This belief and tradition, they contend, led to the identification of Jesus as preexistent, personified Wisdom, or a heavenly being in the New Testament canon. However, the titles Jesus is given are historical titles tracing back to Egyptian New Kingdom ideology. Therefore the title "Son of God" is likely solely messianic and not literal. King and Messiah as Son of God is distinctive in its range, spanning both Testaments and informed by ancient Near Eastern literature and Jewish noncanonical literature.
Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East
Author: Matthew Neujahr
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Published: 2012-11-06
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 193067581X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work provides an in-depth investigation of after-the-fact predictions in ancient Near Eastern texts from roughly 1200 B.C.E.–70 C.E. It argues that the Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek works discussed are all part of a developing scribal discourse of “mantic historiography” by which scribes blend their local traditions of history writing and predictive texts to produce a new mode of historiographic expression. This in turn calls into question the use and usefulness of traditional literary categories such as “apocalypse” to analyze such works.
