Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East (The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 566) - Hardcover
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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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C.L. Crouch is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Ancient Judaism and Chair of the Department of Textual, Historical and Systematic Studies of Judaism and Christianity at Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands). She is also a research associate of the University of Pretoria (South Africa).
Laura Quick is Assistant Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies at Princeton University, USA.
Jonathan Stökl is an assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
Jacqueline Vayntrub is Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible at Yale University, USA
Anna Elise Zernecke is Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.
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