Prophetismus und Divination - Ein Blick auf die keilschriftlichen Quellen

Cancik‐Kirschbaum, Eva

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“…Prophecy increasingly is viewed as a subset of divination and grouped together with visions and dreams as non‐inductive methods of ascertaining divine knowledge. Kitz () and Cancik‐Kirschbaum () examine this categorical link between prophecy and divination. Nissinen () further explains how divination represents the conceptual framework for various forms of divine–human communication that we see across biblical and non‐biblical texts.…”

Section: What Is Prophecy?mentioning

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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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Section: What Is Prophecy?mentioning

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Prophecy in the Ancient Levant and Old Babylonian Mari

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2020

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“…For example, Nissinen (2003: 1; see also 2004, 2010) defines prophecy as ‘another, yet distinctive branch, of the consultation of the divine that is generally called “divination”’, and Leclerc (2007: 36) identifies it as ‘part of a larger religious tradition that seeks to establish communication between divine beings and humans’. Most recently, Stökl (2012: 7, 10) surveys the ancient Near Eastern prophetic texts and concludes that prophecy, magic, and divination are ‘not as distinct as previously thought’, and prophecy represents a subcategory of the defining religious category of divination (see also Ellis 1989; Grabbe 1995: 139-55; Weippert 1997; Petersen 2000; Barstad 2002; Cancik-Kirschbaum 2003; Kitz 2003; de Jong 2007; Scurlock 2010). The effort to overcome traditional scholarly dichotomies that saw a substantial qualitative difference between prophecy and divination stands at the heart of these new approaches (see Nissinen 2004: 21; 2010: 17).…”

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The Phenomenon of Israelite Prophecy in Contemporary Scholarship

Kelle

2014

Currents in Biblical Research

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In the mid-twentieth century, the classic historical-critical approach to the Hebrew Bible’s prophetic books gave way to the study of Israelite prophecy as part of a social phenomenon known throughout the ancient Near East. Since the 1980s, research on the phenomenon of Israelite prophecy has been marked by two main paradigms. The first extends the basic phenomenological approach and identifies Israelite prophecy as a socio-historical phenomenon shared across various ancient cultures. Prophecy was a form of intermediation between the divine and human, and a sub-type of the larger religious practice of (non-technical) divination. The second paradigm questions the usefulness of the biblical texts for reconstructing the ancient realities of prophecy and suggests that Israelite prophecy was a literary phenomenon that emerged among scribes in postexilic Yehud. Within these paradigms, present research offers new insights on lines of inquiry, such as the relationship between prophecy and psychology, prophets in the Second Temple period, and female prophets and prophecy. Overall, scholarship reflects a sharpening distinction between ‘ancient Hebrew prophecy’ as a socio-historical phenomenon and ‘biblical prophecy’ as a literary/scribal phenomenon, and generally approaches Israelite prophecy not as a single phenomenon but as a set of related phenomena.

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Ritual Experts and Participants in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

Hieke¹

2020

The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible

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The chapter summarizes the roles and tasks of ritual experts and participants within the Hebrew Bible and its cultural environment. The first part reflects on the responsibilities of the kings, the priests, and the priestesses within the ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Mari, Hittite Anatolia) and ancient Egypt. Then the chapter turns to the concepts of the Hebrew Bible. The second part demonstrates how the priests and Levites take care for the rituals, the sacrifices, purity, teaching, and administration. Cult prophets and the king have their limited and special functions. Third, at certain points lay people may participate in the cult: the offering person, women, children, and the non-Israelite (the foreigner). The fourth section provides a brief overview over the historical development within the first millennium bce regarding the concepts and circumstances as they are represented in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

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Prophetismus und Divination - Ein Blick auf die keilschriftlichen Quellen

Cited by 7 publications

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Prophecy in the Ancient Levant and Old Babylonian Mari

Prophecy in the Ancient Levant and Old Babylonian Mari

The Phenomenon of Israelite Prophecy in Contemporary Scholarship

Ritual Experts and Participants in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible

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