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Title "Thus speaks Ishtar of Arbela" : prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian period / edited by Robert P. Gordon and Hans M. Barstad.

Publication Info. Winona Lake, Indiana : Eisenbrauns, 2013.

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Note "This volume presents fourteen of the papers read at a meeting of the Edinburgh Prophecy Network held at New College, Edinburgh, on 1-12 December 2009"ECIP introduction.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Prophecy as construct : ancient and modern / Martti Nissinen -- Prophecy in the Mari and Nineveh archives / Robert P. Gordon -- Prophecy in K1285? Re-evaluating the divine speech episodes of Nabû / Jason Atkinson -- Hosea and the Assyrians / Hans M. Barstad -- Micah in Neo-Assyrian light / Bob Becking -- Ištar and the motif of the cosmological warrior : Assurbanipal's adaptation of Enuma Elish / C.L. Crouch -- The post-722 and late pre-exilic compositions underlying the Amos-text / Graham Hamborg -- Royal cultic prophecy in Assyria, Judah, and Egypt / John W. Hilber -- Ecology, theology, society : physical, religious, and social disjuncture in biblical and Neo-Assyrian prophetic texts / Hilary Marlow -- The prophet Micah and political society / David J. Reimer -- Prophecy in Israel and Assyria: are we comparing apples and pears? The materiality of writing and the avoidance of parallelomania / Joachim Schaper -- "I have rained stones and fiery glow on their heads!" Celestial and meteorological prophecy in the Neo-Assyrian empire / Jonathan Stökl -- Were the Neo-Assyrian prophets intercessors? A comparative study of Neo-Assyrian and Hebrew texts / Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer -- Isaiah : prophet of weal or woe? / H.G.M. Williamson.
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Subject Prophecy -- Comparative studies -- Congresses.
Prophecy.
Genre/Form Comparative studies.
Subject Prophets -- Comparative studies -- Congresses.
Prophets.
Prophecy -- Judaism -- Congresses.
Prophecy -- Judaism.
Assyro-Babylonian literature -- Relation to the Old Testament -- Congresses.
Assyro-Babylonian literature -- Relation to the Old Testament.
Assyria -- Religion -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Gordon, R. P., editor.
Barstad, Hans M., editor.
Other Form: Print version: "Thus speaks Ishtar of Arbela" 9781575062822 (DLC) 2013020971 (OCoLC)849641445
ISBN 9781575068602 (electronic book)
1575068605 (electronic book)
9781575062822
1575062828