Witchcraft, Magic, and Divination in Canaan and Ancient Israel
Author: Jean-Michel de Tarragon
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ann Jeffers
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9789004105133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication is a detailed study of magical and divinatory practices in the Ancient Near East, particularly in Palestine and Syria. It combines the insights of the Old Testament with the data available from Phoenician and the older Ugaritic texts. It traces the links both historically and archaeologically.
Author: Frederick H. Cryer
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ann Jeffers
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 881
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Kabamba Kiboko
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-02-23
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0567673685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the language of divination in the Hebrew Bible, particularly in 1 Samuel 28:3-25-the oft-called “Witch of Endor” passage. Kiboko contends that much of the vocabulary of divination in this passage and beyond has been mistranslated in authorized English and other translations used in Africa and in scholarly writings. Kiboko argues that the woman of Endor is not a witch. The woman of Endor is, rather, a diviner, much like other ancient Near Eastern and modern African diviners. She resists an inner-biblical conquest theology and a monologic authoritarian view of divination to assist King Saul by various means, including invoking the spirit of a departed person, Samuel. Kiboko carries out a Hebrew word-study shaped by the theories of Mikhail M. Bakhtin regarding the utterance, heteroglossia, and dialogism in order to understand the designative, connotative, emotive, and associative meanings of the many divinatory terms in the Hebrew Bible. She then examines 1 Samuel 28 and a number of prior translations thereof, using the ideological framework of African-feminist-postcolonial biblical interpreters and translation theories to uncover the hidden ideology or transcript of these translations. Finally, using African contextual/cultural hermeneutics and cross-cultural translation theory, Kiboko offers new English, French, and Kisanga translations of this passage that are both faithful to the original text and more appropriate to an inculturated-liberation African Christian hermeneutic, theology, and praxis.
Author: Arie Versluis
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-02-20
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9004341315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to Deuteronomy 7, God commands Israel to exterminate the indigenous population of Canaan. In The Command to Exterminate the Canaanites: Deuteronomy 7, Arie Versluis offers an analysis and evaluation of this command. Following an exegesis of the chapter, the historical background, possible motives and the place of the nations of Canaan in the Hebrew Bible are investigated. The theme of religiously inspired violence continues to be a topic of interest. The present volume discusses the consequences of the command to exterminate the Canaanites for the Old Testament view of God and for the question whether the Bible legitimizes violence in the present. Finally, the author shows how he reads this text as a Christian theologian.
Author: John H. Walton
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1493414364
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading evangelical scholar John Walton surveys the cultural context of the ancient Near East, bringing insight to the interpretation of specific Old Testament passages. This new edition of a top-selling textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout to reflect the refined thinking of a mature scholar. It includes over 30 illustrations. Students and pastors who want to deepen their understanding of the Old Testament will find this a helpful and instructive study.
Author: Solomon Nigosian
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2008-07-25
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1782847626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the practices and rituals associated with magic and divination among the ancient Israelites as documented in the Old Testament.
Author: Jonathan Stökl
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-02-06
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9004229930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the 1990s 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
Author: Athalya Brenner-Idan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 056767116X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations are gathered together to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light, focusing on issues of intertextuality. Samuel, Kings and Chronicles I sheds light from new perspectives on themes in these so-called historical books including Asian American and Chinese readings, issues of land, genealogy and maleness. The authors challenge us to consider how we deal with cultural distances between ourselves and these ancient writings - and between one another in the contemporary world. These goal of these essays is de-centre the often homogeneous first-world orientation of much biblical scholarship and open to up new possibilities for discovery of meaning and method.