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02692aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 BBD067FE840811E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 170607t20172017enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780198808558 020 $a 0198808550 035 $a (OCoLC)989038707 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCO $d PTS $d CFT $d OCLCF $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d GUA $d EQO $d LNT $d DTM $d SILO 050 4 $a BL633 $b .N57 2017 082 04 $a 133.3 $2 23 100 1 $a Nissinen, Martti, $e author. 245 10 $a Ancient prophecy : $b Near Eastern, biblical, and Greek perspectives / $c Martti Nissinen. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xix, 448 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-421) and indexes. 505 0 $a Constructing prophetic divination -- Ancient Near Eastern sources -- Greek sources -- Hebrew Bible -- Prophecy and ecstasy -- Prophets and temples -- Prophets and kings -- Prophecy and gender -- Keyholes for comparative reconstruction -- Gender of prophets and deities in ancient Near eastern sources -- Catalogue of ancient Near Eastern documents of prophecy. 520 8 $a Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives' is the first monograph-length comparative study on prophetic divination in ancient Near Eastern, biblical, and Greek sources. Prophecy is one of the ways humans have believed to become conversant with what is believed to be superhuman knowledge. The prophetic process of communication involves the prophet, her/his audience, and the deity from whom the message allegedly comes from. Martti Nissinen introduces a wealth of ancient sources documenting the prophetic phenomenon around the ancient Eastern Mediterranean, whether cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, Greek inscriptions, or ancient historians. 650 0 $a Prophecy $x History. 650 0 $a Prophets $z Middle East. 650 0 $a Prophets $z Greece. 650 7 $a Prophecy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01079199 650 7 $a Prophets. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01079211 651 7 $a Greece. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208380 651 7 $a Middle East. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01241586 650 7 $a Prophetie $2 gnd 650 7 $a Religion $2 gnd 651 7 $a Alter Orient $2 gnd 651 7 $a Griechenland $g Altertum $2 gnd 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Electronic version: $a Nissinen, Martti. $t Ancient prophecy. $b First edition. $d Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017 $z 9780191846083 $w (OCoLC)1013180500 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018024334.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BBD067FE840811E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search