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Author Nissinen, Martti, author

Title Ancient prophecy : Near Eastern, biblical, and Greek perspectives / Martti Nissinen
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Constructing prophetic divination -- Ancient Near Eastern sources -- Greek sources -- Hebrew Bible -- Prophecy and ecstasy -- Prophets and temples -- Prophets and kings -- Prophecy and gender -- Keyholes for comparative reconstruction -- Gender of prophets and deities in ancient Near eastern sources -- Catalogue of ancient Near Eastern documents of prophecy
Summary 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
Notes This edition previously issued in print: 2017
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 17, 2017)
Subject Prophecy -- History
Prophets -- Middle East
Prophets -- Greece
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
Prophecy
Prophets
Greece
Middle East
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191846083
0191846082
0192535978
9780192535979