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This volume brings together experts in the study of ancient prayers and divination methods to analyse the variety of means by which human beings sought to communicate with their gods and by which the gods were seen to communicate with their worshippers. In a departure from previous scholarship, the volume brings together the study of prophecy, as an intuitive form of divination, with the study of technical methods of communication and other forms of institutionalised communication such as prayer. Such a format allows divine-human communication to be studied in both directions simultaneously: the means by which the divine communicates to human beings through divination, and the means by which human beings communicate with the divine through prayer. This new perspective on the study of divine-human-divine communication allows scholars to better appreciate the way in which communication and the relationship between heaven and earth was conceived in the ancient near East.

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Author:   Professor C.L. Crouch (Radboud University) ,  Dr. Jonathan Stökl (University of Leiden, The Netherlands.) ,  Anna Elise Zernecke
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   T.& T.Clark Ltd
Volume:   No. 566
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780567461629

ISBN 10:   0567461629
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   26 July 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"""Introduction"" - C.L.Crouch, J.Stökl, Anna Elise Zernecke ""The Diversity of Human Communication with God in the Hebrew Psalter"" - Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Philipps-Universität Marburg ""The Exclusivity of Divine Communication in Ancient Israel"" - Herbert Huffmon, Drew University ""'May he last with the sun': Psalm 72 in its Northern Syrian Context"" - Jan Dietrich, University of Leipzig ""The Growth of a Prayer. Textual Criticism and Ishtar 2"" - Anna Elise Zernecke, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ""Prayers and personal piety"" - Margaret Jaques, University of Zürich ""The Curious Case of Ludlul Bel Nemeqi: Divine-Human Communication in the Babylonian Poem of the Righteous Sufferer"" - Alan Lenzi, University of the Pacific ""(Intuitive) Divination, (Ethical) Demands and Diplomacy in the Ancient Near East"" - Jonathan Stökl, University College London ""(Technical) Divination and Divine-Human Communication"" (title tbc) - Nils Peter Heeßel, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg ""Samaritan inscriptions as votive depositories"" - Anne Katrine Gudme, University of Copenhagen"

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Jonathan Stokl is Research Assistant at University College London. Anna Elise Zernecke is Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

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