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Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780198808558
Annotation 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.
Author : Martti Nissinen,Robert Kriech Ritner,Choon Leong Seow
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781589830271
Prophecy was a widespread phenomenon, not only in ancient Israel but in the ancient Near East as a whole. This is the first book to gather the available ancient Near Eastern, extra-biblical sources containing prophetic words or references to prophetic activities. Among the 140 texts included in this volume are oracles of prophets, personal letters, formal inscriptions, and administrative documents from ancient Mesopotamia and Levant from the second and first millennia B.C.E. Most of the texts come from Mari and Assyria. In addition, the volume provides new translations of the relevant section of the Egyptian Report of Wenamon, by Robert K. Ritner, and of various texts from Syria-Palestine containing allusions to prophets and prophetic activities, by C.L. Seow. By collecting and presenting evidence of the activities of prophets and the phenomenon of prophecy from all over the ancient Near East, the volume illumines the cultural background of biblical prophecy and its parallels. It provides scholars of the history, religions, and cultural traditions of the ancient Near East with important information about different types and forms of transmissions of divine words, and makes these valuable primary source materials accessible to students and general readers in contemporary English along with transcriptions of the original languages, indexes, and extensive bibliography.
Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884143413
A 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
Author : Jonathan Stökl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004229938
Since 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 : M. B. Mahmoud
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781425748647
Set before the birth of Christ, The Ancient Prophecy begins when a strange phenomenon happens right after the construction of the Great Pyramid. Seven priests arrive at the pyramid and discover the specter of the Egyptian god Thot (the God of Wisdom), which grants each of them the power to protect the Earth from the wrath of Seth. Four thousand years later, a family gets stuck in a tomb surrounded by foul Egyptian creatures. As the mother and father perish, their daughter, Maya Montgomery, survives only to lose her memory totally after falling down on her head. A couple of years later, Montgomery grows up to become a teenage Egyptologist and joins her colleagues on an expedition to Egypt. There, Maya is tasked to search for a golden capstone that was placed at the top of the great pyramid in ancient times. Will she ever make it till the end even when she realizes that there is an ancient evil tracking her down for the grand prize? Read the book to find out.
Author : Richard S. Tuttle
Publisher : KBS Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Prophecies
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Ages ago, elves and dwarves unknowingly migrated between Universes via a Junction. Jenneva and Egam believe they have found a Junction and plan a trip with Alexander to test the theory and investigate the origins of the elves and dwarves. Because they believe that the perennial animosity between the two races is due to misunderstandings about their histories, the mages include the prince of elves and the prince of dwarves in the group. Trouble begins at the very start of the journey as Egam falters going through the Junction, awakening an old nemesis, the evil demon, Alutar. It appears that the excursion will not just clarify history, but also actually change it. As the group discovers they are trapped in the new Universe, the shocking truth of the real history of the races is overshadowed by impending doom as an ancient prophecy begins to unfold. Meanwhile, the evil sorcerer, Sarac, not only gains freedom from his imprisonment, but also gains the blessing of the evil demon.
Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Prophecy
ISBN : 0191846082
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.
Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192535986
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives is the first monograph-length comparative study on prophetic divination in ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and Greek sources. Prophecy is one of the ways humans have believed to become conversant with what is believed to be superhuman knowledge. The prophetic process of communication involves the prophet, her/his audience, and the deity from whom the message allegedly comes from. Martti Nissinen introduces a wealth of ancient sources documenting the prophetic phenomenon around the ancient Eastern Mediterranean, whether cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, Greek inscriptions, or ancient historians. Nissinen provides an up-to-date presentation of textual sources, the number of which has increased substantially in recent times. In addition, the study includes four analytical comparative chapters. The first demonstrates the altered state of consciousness to be one of the central characteristics of the prophets' public behavior. The second discusses the prophets' affiliation with temples, which are the typical venues of the prophetic performance. The third delves into the relationship between prophets and kings, which can be both critical and supportive. The fourth shows gender-inclusiveness to be one of the peculiar features of the prophetic agency, which could be executed by women, men, and genderless persons as well. The ways prophetic divination manifests itself in ancient sources depend not only on the socio-religious position of the prophets in a given society, but also on the genre and purpose of the sources. Nissinen contends that, even though the view of the ancient prophetic landscape is restricted by the fragmentary and secondary nature of the sources, it is possible to reconstruct essential features of prophetic divination at the socio-religious roots of the Western civilization.
Author : Richard S. Tuttle
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-07
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : 1419686348
Discovering a way to travel between Universes, the Targans unwittingly trigger an Ancient Prophecy that will change the world. Volume 3 of the Targa Trilogy.
Author : John Barton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038454448
A study of the perceptions of ancient Hebrew Prophecy current in Judaism and Christianity from the time of the Exile to the end of the New Testament period, this book examines the development of the Prophetic section of the Old Testament canon in both the Hebrew and Greek traditions, including detailed discussions of such disputed topics as eschatology, apocalyptic, canonicity, and ancient modes of exegesis.
Author : Jonathan Stökl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004229921
Prophecy in the Ancient Near East is the first book-length study that compares all evidence of ancient Near Eastern prophecy, focusing on the Mari texts. It re-evaluates recent scholarship and concludes that prophecy was a widespread phenomenon integrated into divination in general.
Author : David Edward Aune
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080280635X
Aune's comprehensive study of early Christian prophecy includes a review of its antecedents (Greco-Roman oracles, ancient Israelite prophecy, prophecy in early Judaism), a discussion of Jesus as prophet, and analyses of Christian prophetic speeches from Paul to the middle of the second century A.D.
Author : Martti Nissinen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015050003956
The articles are written from manifold perspectives, including methodological, socioreligious, and anthropological, as well as historical viewpoints."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : James Fritz Jerome
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780595249169
Interprets the visions of John recorded in Revelation according to a series of dreams experienced by the author. The work reveals the logical relationship that these visions have with actual places and events, and how those events affect the way we perceive freedom in our lives today.
Author : Chris A. Rollston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Bible
ISBN : 157506765X
