“Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela”
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“Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela”

Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period

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“Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela”

Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period

About this book

Thus Speaks Ishtar is a collection of essays about prophets and prophecy in the ancient Near East during the "Neo-Assyrian Period." This was the time when some of Israel's greatest prophets emerged, and we also have from the same general period a number of prophetic texts found on the site of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh. The book examines the basic idea of prophecy and how this is shaped by the way we study the subject, and it then presents a number of fresh insights on a range of prophetic topics. These include the relationship between Israelite and other forms of prophecy in Assyria and Egypt and the relationship between what prophets said and the written forms in which their words were passed on. Other topics of contemporary interest include what these prophetic texts have to say about the environment, the place of intercession in Israelite and Assyrian religion, and whether the message of the trailblazing Israelite prophets of the eighth century was basically about judgment and community ruin or about hope and community well-being.

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Information

Publisher
Eisenbrauns
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781575062822
eBook ISBN
9781575068602
Topic
History
Subtopic
Egyptian Ancient History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. COVR Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: Prophecy as Construct, Ancient and Modern
  6. Chapter 2: Prophecy in the Mari and Nineveh Archives
  7. Chapter 3: Prophecy in K1285? Re-evaluating the Divine Speech Episodes of Nabû
  8. Chapter 4: Hosea and the Assyrians
  9. Chapter 5: Micah in Neo-Assyrian Light
  10. Chapter 6: Ištar and the Motif of the Cosmological Warrior
  11. Chapter 7: The Post-722 and Late Pre-exilic Compositions Underlying the Amos-Text
  12. Chapter 8: Royal Cultic Prophecy in Assyria, Judah, and Egypt
  13. Chapter 9: Ecology, Theology, Society Physical, Religious, and Social Disjuncture in Biblical and Neo-Assyrian Prophetic Texts
  14. Chapter 10: The Prophet Micah and Political Society
  15. Chapter 11: Prophecy in Israel and Assyria: Are We Comparing Apples and Pears? The Materiality of Writing and the Avoidance of Parallelomania
  16. Chapter 12: “I Have Rained Stones and Fiery Glow on Their Heads!” Celestial and Meteorological Prophecy in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
  17. Chapter 13: Were the Neo-Assyrian Prophets Intercessors? A Comparative Study of Neo-Assyrian and Hebrew Texts
  18. Index