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Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East

Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East

Crouch, C. L.
Stokl, Jonathan
Zernecke, Anna Elise

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Series: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, Book 566

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 0567001849
ISBN13: 9780567001849
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jan 16 2014
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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