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"Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela"

Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period

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"Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela"

Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period

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Thus Speaks Ishtar is a collection of essays about prophets and prophecy in the ancient Near East during the “Neo-Assyrian Period.” This was the time when some of Israel’s greatest prophets emerged, and we also have from the same general period a number of prophetic texts found on the site of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh. The book examines the basic idea of prophecy and how this is shaped by the way we study the subject, and it then presents a number of fresh insights on a range of prophetic topics. These include the relationship between Israelite and other forms of prophecy in Assyria and Egypt and the relationship between what prophets said and the written forms in which their words were passed on. Other topics of contemporary interest include what these prophetic texts have to say about the environment, the place of intercession in Israelite and Assyrian religion, and whether the message of the trailblazing Israelite prophets of the eighth century was basically about judgment and community ruin or about hope and community well-being.

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Publisher

Eisenbrauns

Year

2013

ISBN

9781575068602

Topic

Storia

Subtopic

Storia dell'antico Egitto

COVR Front
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Prophecy as Construct, Ancient and Modern
Chapter 2: Prophecy in the Mari and Nineveh Archives
Chapter 3: Prophecy in K1285? Re-evaluating the Divine Speech Episodes of Nabû
Chapter 4: Hosea and the Assyrians
Chapter 5: Micah in Neo-Assyrian Light
Chapter 6: Ištar and the Motif of the Cosmological Warrior
Chapter 7: The Post-722 and Late Pre-exilic Compositions Underlying the Amos-Text
Chapter 8: Royal Cultic Prophecy in Assyria, Judah, and Egypt
Chapter 9: Ecology, Theology, Society Physical, Religious, and Social Disjuncture in Biblical and Neo-Assyrian Prophetic Texts
Chapter 10: The Prophet Micah and Political Society
Chapter 11: Prophecy in Israel and Assyria: Are We Comparing Apples and Pears? The Materiality of Writing and the Avoidance of Parallelomania
Chapter 12: “I Have Rained Stones and Fiery Glow on Their Heads!” Celestial and Meteorological Prophecy in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Chapter 13: Were the Neo-Assyrian Prophets Intercessors? A Comparative Study of Neo-Assyrian and Hebrew Texts
Index