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Let Us Go to the Seer!
Prophecy, Scribal Culture, and the Invention of Hebrew Scripture
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Let Us Go to the Seer!
Prophecy, Scribal Culture, and the Invention of Hebrew Scripture
About this book
Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible ("Old Testament") has long been regarded as fundamentally different from the divinatory methods of ancient pagans: while the pagans sought out and solicited messages from the gods, the Hebrew prophets received revelation spontaneously, at the initiative of Israel's deity. The trouble with this dichotomy between solicited and spontaneous revelation is that it overlooks or misreads a number of ancient sources, and it obscures the similarities between Hebrew and other societies of the ancient Middle East. In this book, Ryan D. Schroeder re-examines the evidence for prophecy both in the Hebrew Bible and in documents excavated in Israel/Palestine, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq since the late nineteenth century. He shows that prophecies were regularly solicited across ancient West Asia. Moreover, the spontaneity of Israelite revelation is largely a mirage produced by ancient Hebrew scribes and reinforced by modern scholars intent on establishing the uniqueness and superiority of "biblical" religion.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Chapter 1âIntroduction: The Origins of (Scribal) Oracles
- Chapter 2âReligion, Magic, and Comparison in the Study of Ancient Israelite Oracle Giving
- Chapter 3ââI Asked for Signsâ: Oracular Consultations in the Kingdom of Mari
- Chapter 4ââHear Me, O AĹĄĹĄur!â: Oracular Consultations in Iron Age West Asia
- Chapter 5ââLet Us Go to the Seerâ: Oracular Consultations in Ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible
- Chapter 6ââThe Word of Yahweh Came to Meâ: Spontaneity and the Scribal Construction of Biblical Prophecy
- Chapter 7âConclusion: The âEnd of (Spontaneous) Prophecyâ and the Beginning of Scripture
- Bibliography
- Index