Mediating Between Heaven and Earth
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Mediating Between Heaven and Earth

Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East

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Mediating Between Heaven and Earth

Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East

About this book

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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Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780567001849
eBook ISBN
9780567446244
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Biblical Criticism & Interpretation
92 
Mediating 
Between 
Heaven 
and 
Earth 
1 
the 
deity 
“lived”—Aleppo—was 
controlled 
by 
Yarim-Lim, 
the 
overlord 
of 
the 
other 
king 
Zimri-Lim: 
one 
could 
see 
the 
overlord’s 
authority, 
and 
with 
it 
the 
deities’ 
authority, 
extending 
into 
the 
other 
kingdom 
even 
if 
the 
relationship 
between 
Yarim-Lim 
and 
Zimri-Lim 
was 
almost 
one 
between 
equals. 
It 
is 
important 
also 
to 
note 
in 
this 
context 
that 
deities 
could 
make 
important 
ethical 
demands 
from 
“their” 
kings, 
which 
the 
kings 
then 
had 
to 
uphold 
in 
their 
dealings 
with 
foreign 
nations, 
unless 
the 
deity 
gave 
a 
special 
dispensation, 
as 
in 
the 
case 
of 
the 
Yaminite 
refugees 
mentioned 
in 
FM 
VII 
8. 
While 
prophecy 
and 
divination 
was 
more 
commonly 
used 
in 
interior 
power 
struggles 
as 
a 
propaganda 
tool, 
it 
was 
also 
used 
as 
part 
of 
a 
set 
of 
tools 
of 
peaceful 
inter-state 
relationships, 
an 
aspect 
of 
proph-
ecy 
that 
has 
hitherto 
been 
ignored. 

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Introduction
  7. OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND? DEDICATORY INSCRIPTIONS AS COMMUNICATION WITH THE DIVINE -- Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme
  8. THE HERMENEUTICS OF MESOPOTAMIAN EXTISPICY: THEORY VS. PRACTICE -- Nils P. Heeßel
  9. THE CURIOUS CASE OF FAILED REVELATION IN LUDLUL BEL NIMEQI: A NEW SUGGESTION FOR THE POEM’S SCHOLARLY PURPOSE -- Alan Lenzi
  10. THE EXCLUSIVITY OF DIVINE COMMUNICATION IN ANCIENT ISRAEL: FALSE PROPHECY IN THE HEBREW BIBLE AND THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST -- Herbert B. Huffmon
  11. (INTUITIVE) DIVINATION, (ETHICAL) DEMANDS AND DIPLOMACY IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST -- Jonathan Stökl
  12. MODES OF COMMUNICATION WITH THE DIVINE IN THE HEBREW PSALTER -- Erhard S. Gerstenberger
  13. “TO TALK TO ONE’S GOD”: PENITENTIAL PRAYERS IN MESOPOTAMIA -- Margaret Jaques
  14. HOW TO APPROACH A DEITY: THE GROWTH OF A PRAYER ADDRESSED TO IĆ TAR -- Anna Elise Zernecke
  15. PSALM 72 IN ITS ANCIENT SYRIAN CONTEXT -- Jan Dietrich
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index of References
  18. Index of Authors

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