The Invention Of Prophecy

Author : Armin W. Geertz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520311084

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The Invention of Prophecy by Armin W. Geertz Pdf

Armin Geertz corrects what he sees as basic American and European tendencies to misrepresent non-Western cultures. Carefully documenting the historical role of prophecy in Hopi Indian religion, Geertz shows how prophecies about the end of the world have been created by the Hopi Traditionalist Movement and used by non-Indian movements, cults, and interest groups. Many of the seeming peculiarities of Hopi religion and culture have been invented, he says, by tourists, novelists, journalists, and scholars, and the millennial Traditionalist Movement has subtly co-authored European and American stereotypes of Indians. Geertz's richly detailed examples and persuasive arguments will be welcomed by all those interested in Native American studies, comparative religions, anthropology, and sociology. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Author : Laura Ackerman Smoller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400887323

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History, Prophecy, and the Stars by Laura Ackerman Smoller Pdf

Although astrology was viewed with suspicion by the medieval church, it became a major area of inquiry for the renowned cardinal and scholar Pierre d'Ailly, whose astrological and apocalyptic writings had a significant influence on Christopher Columbus. D'Ailly's writings on the stars, the focus of this book, clearly illustrate the complex relationships among astrology, science, and Christian thinking in the late Middle Ages. Through an examination of his letters, sermons, and philosophical, astrological, and theological treatises, Laura Ackerman Smoller reveals astrology's appeal as a scientific means to interpret history and prophecy, and not merely as a magical way to forecast and manipulate one's own fate. At the same time, she shows how d'Ailly dealt with delicate problems--such as free will and God's omnipotence--in elevating astrology to a compelling, but not always consistent, "natural theology." The French cardinal's most intriguing prediction was for the advent of Antichrist in 1789, one that stemmed from his deep concern over the Great Schism (1378-1414). Smoller maintains that the division in the church led d'Ailly to fear the imminence of the apocalypse, and that he eventually turned to astrology to quell his apocalyptic fears, thereby gaining confidence that a church council could heal the Schism. In elucidating the place of astrology in medieval society, this book also affords a personal glimpse of a man facing a profound crisis. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Joseph Blenkinsopp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Bible
ISBN : UVA:X000837963

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A History of Prophecy in Israel by Joseph Blenkinsopp Pdf

Author : Martin K. Ettington
Publisher : Martin K. Ettington
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Prophecy: A History and How to Guide by Martin K. Ettington Pdf

The ability to tell the future has always fascinated man since prehistoric times. Prophets have spawned numerous religions and methods of divination to tell the future. Prophets are not only able to predict some major events seems but may be able to control them. Prophets from the Bible were considered major persons of importance in those times and their predictions were major influences on the decisions of leaders. In my own life I’ve had numerous experiences with premonitions involving the future. They have varied from strong visions, to dreams, to vague feelings, to strong fear. Even though I’ve studied many other types of paranormal experiences and had many, these experiences about future events seem to be my strongest natural precognitive ability. These events also formed major influences on my life, and their study and analysis has therefore been a big passion of mine. In this book my goal is to cover explain the history of Prophecy and Divination, describe the types of experiences people have, and to analyze these phenomena.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017118903

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The History of Prophecy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Blenkinsopp
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664256392

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A History of Prophecy in Israel by Joseph Blenkinsopp Pdf

This revised and enlarged edition of Joseph Blenkinsopp's 1983 book will be a welcome addition to the libraries of serious Biblical scholars. The author critically recounts the history of Israelite prophecy from a social-historical perspective.

Author : Jon Mark Ruthven,Jon Ruthven
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781591602149

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The Prophecy That Is Shaping History by Jon Mark Ruthven,Jon Ruthven Pdf

Millions of Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe that a 2,500-year-old prophecy is about to be fulfilled: a global, apocalyptic jihad of many nations against the tiny state of Israel, whose recent re-emergence in its traditional land has sparked unrelenting rage and attack. Repeated resolutions passed in the United Nations reflect world-wide and nearly unanimous hostility against the so-called Zionist entityeven to the point of denying its right to exist. Most news media and political analysts seem unaware of the ancient prophecy that not only predicts this apocalyptic war, but also, amazingly, how this prophecy by Ezekiel (chapters 3644) provides the scenario for numerous best-selling books in both the English-speaking and Muslim worlds! These best sellers not only describe this great conflagration, but actually also motivate their readers to prepare for it! The Prophecy That Is Shaping History represents a major advance in research and scholarship in examining the historical and contemporary impact of Ezekielʼs prophecy on world events. This academic monograph also offers a wealth of new evidence in tracing the identities, origins, and ultimate destinies of the key nations of Ezekielʼs prophecy who are seen to participate in what millions believe will be the most horrific battle the world will ever witness.

Author : William Peter Strickland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : OSU:32435004383337

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Christianity Demonstrated by Facts, Drawn from History, Prophecy, and Miracles, and Confirmed by Living and Dying Witnesses by William Peter Strickland Pdf

Author : Joseph Blenkinsopp
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611642360

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A History of Prophecy in Israel, Revised and Enlarged by Joseph Blenkinsopp Pdf

This revised and enlarged edition of a classic in Old Testament scholarship reflects the most up-to-date research on the prophetic books and offers substantially expanded discussions of important new insight on Isaiah and the other prophets.

Author : Hans M. Barstad,Reinhard Gregor Kratz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110205060

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Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah by Hans M. Barstad,Reinhard Gregor Kratz Pdf

This volume contains the proceedings of a Symposium "Prophecy in the Book of Jeremiah", arranged by the Edinburgh Prophecy Network in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, 11-12 May 2007. Prophetic studies are undergoing radical changes at the moment, following the breakdown of a methodological consensus in humanities and biblical studies. One of the challenges today concerns the question how to deal with history ina "post-modern" age. The French Annales School and narrative theory have contributed toward changing the intellectual climate of biblical studies dramatically. Whereas the "historical Jeremiah" was formerly believed to be hidden under countless additions and interpretations, and changed beyond recognition, it was still assumed that it would be possible to recover the "real" prophet with the tools of historical critical methods. However, according to a majority of scholars today, the recovery of the historical Jeremiah is no longer possible. For this reason, we have to seek new and multimethodological approaches to the study of prophecy, including diachronic and synchronic methods. The Meeting in Edinburgh in 2007 gathered specialists in prophetic studies from Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the USA, focusing on different aspects of the prophet Jeremiah. Prophetic texts from the whole Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern prophecy are taken into consideration.

Author : George M. Shulman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816630745

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American Prophecy by George M. Shulman Pdf

Prophecy is the fundamental idiom of American politics--a biblical rhetoric about redeeming the crimes, suffering, and promise of a special people. Yet American prophecy and its great practitioners--from Frederick Douglass and Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison--are rarely addressed, let alone analyzed, by political theorists. This paradox is at the heart of American Prophecy, a work in which George Shulman unpacks and critiques the political meaning of American prophetic rhetoric. In the face of religious fundamentalisms that associate prophecy and redemption with dogmatism and domination, American Prophecy finds connections between prophetic language and democratic politics, particularly racial politics. Exploring how American critics of white supremacy have repeatedly reworked biblical prophecy, Shulman demonstrates how these writers and thinkers have transformed prophecy into a political language and given redemption a political meaning. To examine how antiracism is linked to prophecy as a vernacular idiom is to rethink political theology, recast democratic theory, and reassess the bearing of religion on American political culture. Still, prophetic language is not always liberatory, and American Prophecy maintains a critical dispassion about a rhetoric that is both prevalent and problematic.

Author : Yosefa Raz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009366304

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The Poetics of Prophecy by Yosefa Raz Pdf

Since the mid-1700s, poets and scholars have been deeply entangled in the project of reinventing prophecy. Moving between literary and biblical studies, this book reveals how Romantic poetry is linked to modern biblical scholarship's development. On the one hand, scholars, intellectuals, and artists discovered models of strong prophecy in biblical texts, shoring up aesthetic and nationalist ideals, while on the other, poets drew upon a counter-tradition of destabilizing, indeterminate, weak prophetic power. Yosefa Raz considers British and German Romanticism alongside their margins, incorporating Hebrew literature written at the turn of the twentieth century in the Russia Empire. Ultimately she explains the weakness of modern poet-prophets not only as a crisis of secularism but also, strikingly, as part of the instability of the biblical text itself. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Mignon R. Jacobs,Raymond F. Person Jr.
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781589837508

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Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History by Mignon R. Jacobs,Raymond F. Person Jr. Pdf

This collection of essays examines the relationship of prophecy to the Deuteronomistic History (Deuteronomy–2 Kings), including the historical reality of prophecy that stands behind the text and the portrayal of prophecy within the literature itself. The contributors use a number of perspectives to explore the varieties of intermediation and the cultic setting of prophecy in the ancient Near East; the portrayal of prophecy in pentateuchal traditions, pre-Deuteronomistic sources, and other Near Eastern literature; the diverse perspectives reflected within the Deuteronomistic History; and the possible Persian period setting for the final form of the Deuteronomistic History. Together the collection represents the current state of an important, ongoing discussion. The contributors are Ehud Ben Zvi, Diana Edelman, Mignon R. Jacobs, Mark Leuchter, Martti Nissinen, Mark O’Brien, Raymond F. Person Jr., Thomas C. Römer, Marvin A. Sweeney, and Rannfrid Thelle.

Author : Rannfrid I. Thelle,Terje Stordalen,Mervyn E.J. Richardson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004293274

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New Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy and History by Rannfrid I. Thelle,Terje Stordalen,Mervyn E.J. Richardson Pdf

New Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy and History presents innovative and thought provoking essays on biblical prophecy and Old Testament history by colleagues, students, and friends of Professor Hans M. Barstad, in honour of his esteemed career in biblical studies.

Author : Tom Mould
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817312268

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Choctaw Prophecy by Tom Mould Pdf

Explores the power and artistry of prophecy among the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, who use predictions about the future to interpret the world around them This book challenges the common assumption that American Indian prophecy was an anomaly of the 18th and 19th centuries that resulted from tribes across the continent reacting to the European invasion. Tom Mould’s study of the contemporary prophetic traditions of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians reveals a much larger system of prophecy that continues today as a vibrant part of the oral tradition. Mould shows that Choctaw prophecy is more than a prediction of the future; it is a way to unite the past, present, and future in a moral dialogue about how one should live. Choctaw prophecy, he argues, is stable and continuous; it is shared in verbal discourse, inviting negotiation on the individual level; and, because it is a tradition of all the people, it manifests itself through myriad visions with many themes. In homes, casinos, restaurants, laundromats, day care centers, and grocery stores, as well as in ceremonial and political situations, people discuss current events and put them into context with traditional stories that govern the culture. In short, recitation is widely used in everyday life as a way to interpret, validate, challenge, and create the world of the Choctaw speaker. Choctaw Prophecy stands as a sound model for further study into the prophetic traditions of not only other American Indian tribes but also communities throughout the world. Weaving folklore and oral tradition with ethnography, this book will be useful to academic and public libraries as well as to scholars and students of southern Indians and the modern South.