How Prophecy Became Literature

Nissinen, Martti

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“…This could explain why most adults in Le Cri de la forêt (2015a) are only interested in exploiting their forest resources and largely ignorant of the devastation they are inflicting on the forests and their environment. As Martti Nissinen (2005) suggests, prophecy must not only be construed in religious terms but should be extended to include intermediation between prophets and other sources of inspiration. Wojcik and Frontain argue that "Prophets have at least two voices: their own and the authority for whom they speak, be it God or some source that is not divine but equally compelling-a value, a program, a way of life" (1984, p. 9).…”

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Our Children Will Fight for the Climate: How Congo-Basin Writers Prophesied Global Youth Climate Activism

Nsah¹

2023

EGJ

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In the context of climate change and ecological breakdown, this essay suggests that some Congo-Basin writers had prophesied the emergence of global youth/children's climate activism. Specifically, it contends that Congolese writer and former cabinet minister Henri Djombo, Francophone Cameroonian-born, Brazzaville-based playwright, stage director and climate activist Osée Collins Koagne, Gabonese geographer, activist publisher and writer Nadia Origo, and Anglophone Cameroonian writer and environmentalist Ekpe Inyang had literarily predicted youth climate activism that correlates with the current global Youth Strikes for Climate.Drawing on postcolonial ecocriticism and writers as literary prophets, it uses Djombo and Koagne's co-authored play Le Cri de la forêt (2015a), Djombo's play Les Bénévoles (2015b), Nadia Origo's novel Le Voyage d'Aurore (2014 [2007]), and Inyang's plays The Hill Barbers (2010) and Beware (1993), among others, to argue that current global youth climate activism was, to an extent, prophesied in Africa through literary advocacy for including children in future climate solutions before emerging in Europe, especially through the Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg and other youth climate activists around the world. The essay also traces the role of youth in climate activism, partly accounts for the timid participation of African youth in climate protests and highlights the motivations behind youth climate activism for both the young characters in the texts and their writers.

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Our Children Will Fight for the Climate: How Congo-Basin Writers Prophesied Global Youth Climate Activism

Nsah¹

2023

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“…To speak of prophets and prophecy is to invoke the image of society's isolated critics, those men and women who receive divine oracles and communicate them to humanity. In the history of scholarship, prophecy typically is understood as the “human transmission of allegedly divine messages.” According to Nissinen (), prophecy is a socially constructed phenomenon in antiquity. The individuals called prophets do not exist in a vacuum but rather are recognized by their communities with communication between people and the divine.…”

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Prophecy in the Ancient Levant and Old Babylonian Mari

Deluty

2020

Religion Compass

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This article serves as an introduction to the historical phenomenon of prophecy in the Ancient Levant and Old Babylonian Mari. Of particular focus is the terminology for prophetic personnel, prophecy as a system of communication, the link between prophecy and monarchy at Mari, and the question of biblical prophetic books and their relationship to prophetic practice. The ancient evidence is surveyed in an effort to elucidate a comparative investigation across the Ancient Near East. This includes narratives and books in the Hebrew Bible, and extra-biblical sources from the sites of Lachish and Deir 'Alla in the larger Levant. Additionally, the Old Babylonian archives of the 18th century BCE kingdom of Mari (Tell Hariri, Syria) illuminate how prophecy is part of a larger system of royal correspondence in antiquity. The article offers the most up-to-date literature on prophecy at Mari and also introduces new work on third-party intermediaries, those individuals who relay prophets' messages to their recipients. K E Y W O R D S communication, Hebrew Bible, intermediaries, Levant, Mari, Old Babylonia, prophecy 1 | WHAT IS PROPHECY?To speak of prophets and prophecy is to invoke the image of society's isolated critics, those men and women who receive divine oracles and communicate them to humanity. In the history of scholarship, prophecy typically is understood as the "human transmission of allegedly divine messages." 1 According to Nissinen (2005), prophecy is a socially constructed phenomenon in antiquity. The individuals called prophets do not exist in a vacuum but rather are

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“…At least until the Hellenistic period, access to texts was probably limited largely to the same circles that produced them. 431 Even if they had been aware of these issues or texts, one wonders how relevant "average Yehudites" would have found these questions.…”

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Disputed Temple

Barker¹

2017

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The book of Haggai emerged from a dispute in the early Persian period over the propriety and feasibility of rebuilding the temple in Jerusalem in 520 BCE. As a record of that dispute, the book is a rhetorical artifact that displays a variety of strategies designed to persuade the Yehudite community that Yhwh wanted his house rebuilt. Theological and socioeconomic objections and obstacles to reconstruction had to be overcome before the Yehudites would accept Haggai's call to rebuild. This dissertation argues that although some of the Yehudite community accepted Haggai's claim that Yhwh wanted his temple built, others remained unpersuaded, fearing that the adverse agricultural and economic conditions, as well as the lack of a royal builder, were signs that Yhwh was not ready to begin the period of restoration. The oracles and narrative portions of the book are intended to counter these fears by arguing that Yhwh will provide for the adornment of the temple, bring prosperity to Yehud once the temple is built, and has already designated the Davidide Zerubbabel as the chosen royal builder. Haggai further strengthened commitment to reconstruction by vilifying those Yehudites who failed to support the temple as unclean and non-Israelite. Rhetorical analysis illumines not only particular features of the text but alsoindicates what theological and socioeconomic sources of opposition to temple reconstruction were most important in this period. This sheds further light on the socioeconomic conditions of early Persian period Yehud. many years ago. I have been especially blessed to live with the excellent brothers of Bl.Giles Friary. The charity, respect, and forbearance they have shown me is without measure and a model for all.For their companionship, advice, and good humor-especially in more challenging moments-warmly do I thank my fellow graduate students, in particular Catherine Muldoon (PhD, Boston College, 2009), Kimberly Bauser, and Tom Fraatz. I cannot imagine getting this far without them.Finally, although my mother, Sandra Bowman, and my sister, Kelly Galloway, are the first to proclaim they understand nothing of this project, they have nevertheless consistently encouraged and supported me in all my years of school. They long ago learned to love that I am an incurable student-for-life, and I am deeply grateful for that.iii ContentsAcknowledgments i Contents iii Abbreviations vi Translation of the Haggai Narrative x Chapter One -Introduction III. Objections and Obstacles to Reconstruction A. Theological Objections and Obstacles A. 1. Doubts about Divine Permission A. 2. Concerns that the Period of Judgment Had Not Ended A. 3.

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How Prophecy Became Literature

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