Using comparative anthropology to get at the social dimensions of prophetic activity, Robert Wilson's study brings the study of Isrealite prophecy to a new level.
Author: Robert R. Wilson
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451417454
Category: Religion
Page: 322
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Using comparative anthropology to get at the social dimensions of prophetic activity, Robert Wilson's study brings the study of Isrealite prophecy to a new level. Looking at both modern societies and Ancient Near Eastern ones, Wilson sketches the nature of prophetic activity, its social location, and its social functions. He then shows how these features appear in Israelite prophecy and sketches a history of prophecy in Israel.
This book offers a new and fruitful approach to a major area of Old Testament study.
Author: David Petersen
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567492685
Category: Religion
Page: 131
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This book offers a new and fruitful approach to a major area of Old Testament study. Expressing dissatisfaction with current critical theories of Israelite prophecy, which have regularly depended on the categories of office and charisma to designate essential features, Petersen looks instead to modern 'role theory' for a conceptual apparatus which can take account not only of what prophets regularly did in common but also of the significant variety apparent in Israelite prophetic performance.
Author: Oxford Old Testament SeminarPublish On: 2010-06-03
This important work on Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel is the product of an impressive international team of twenty-three outstanding scholars, most of whom are well-known, established names, while a few are able, younger ...
Author: Oxford Old Testament Seminar
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567473646
Category: Religion
Page: 462
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This important work on Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel is the product of an impressive international team of twenty-three outstanding scholars, most of whom are well-known, established names, while a few are able, younger scholars beginning to make their mark on the field. The volume approaches its subject from a remarkable number of different angles, with essays ranging from Israel's ancient Near Eastern background right through to the New Testament, but the majority of essays concentrate on Prophecy and the Prophets in the Old Testament. Particular attention is paid to the following subjects: Prophecy amongst Israel's Ancient Near Eastern Neighbours; Female Prophets in both Israel and the Ancient Near East; Israelite Prophecy in the Light of modern Sociological, Anthropological and Psychological Insights; Deuteronomy 18.9-22, the Prophets and Scripture; Elijah, Elisha and Prophetic Succession; the Theology of Amos; Hosea and the Baal cu All the contributions, previously unpublished, arise from papers delivered at the Oxford Old Testament seminar.
A discussion of false prophecy in ancient Israel in the light of evidence from Mesopotamia. Niditch, Susan. Oral World and Written Word. ... and Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (pp. 235–71). Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000.
Author: Susan Niditch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470656778
Category: Religion
Page: 552
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The Companion to Ancient Israel offers an innovative overview of ancient Israelite culture and history, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields. Distinguished scholars provide original contributions that explore the tradition in all its complexity, multiplicity and diversity. A methodologically sophisticated overview of ancient Israelite culture that provides insights into political and social history, culture, and methodology Explores what we can say about the cultures and history of the people of Israel and Judah, but also investigates how we know what we know Presents fresh insights, richly informed by a variety of approaches and fields Delves into religion as lived, an approach that asks about the everyday lives of ordinary people and the material cultures that they construct and experience Each essay is an original contribution to the subject
Author: Society for Old Testament StudyPublish On: 1991-11-21
Encapsulating as it does research that has been undertaken on the sociological, anthropological and political aspects of the history of ancient Israel, this important book is designed to follow in the tradition of works in the series ...
Author: Society for Old Testament Study
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521423929
Category: History
Page: 436
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Encapsulating as it does research that has been undertaken on the sociological, anthropological and political aspects of the history of ancient Israel, this important book is designed to follow in the tradition of works in the series sponsored by The Society for Old Testament Study which began with the publication of The People and the Book in 1925. The World of Ancient Israel is especially concerned to explore in greater depth than comparable studies the areas and degrees of overlap between approaches to the subject of Old Testament research adopted by scholars and students of theology and the social sciences. Increasing numbers of scholars have recognised the valuable insights that can be gained from a cross-disciplinary approach, and it is becoming clear that the early biblical traditions about the formation of the Israelite state must be examined in the light of comparative anthropology if useful historical conclusions are to be drawn from them.
The essays in this volume bring together these crucial aspects of modern biblical research, the scope ranging from methodological issues about sociology and urbanism to Assyrian prophecies and specific biblical texts.
Author: Lester L. Grabbe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780567455987
Category: Religion
Page: 232
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Urbanism in ancient society has now become an important topic for both classical and ancient Near Eastern scholars. Equally, the question of prophecy as social institution and literary corpus has been increasingly problematized. The essays in this volume bring together these crucial aspects of modern biblical research, the scope ranging from methodological issues about sociology and urbanism to Assyrian prophecies and specific biblical texts. An introductory chapter surveys recent anthropological study on urbanism, summarizes the essays, and places the different contributions in context.
Newer views on the place of the prophet in his society and on the psychological and sociological aspects are expressed by Robert P. Carroll, When Prophecy Failed (London, 1979), by Robert R. Wilson, Prophecy and Society in Ancient ...
Author: Niels Peter Lemche
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780567662804
Category: Religion
Page: 272
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When this provocative text was first published, Lemche presented a new model of how we should understand Israelite society, its history and its religion. Lemche argues first that 'Israel' was the result of a social development among the Canaanite population of Palestine in the second half of the second millennium BCE. This implies that Israelite religion was originally 'Canaanite' and that what we think of as typically 'Jewish' religion did not arise until c. 500 BCE. Lemche's radical reassessment of Israelite history is based on the conviction that the Old Testament contains hardly any historical sources older than the seventh century BCE. The early history of Israel must therefore be reconstructed from archaeological results and non-biblical evidence, not from the Old Testament. In this new edition Lemche provides an extensive new introduction and bibliography, considering how the field has developed since the work first appeared.
See also Robert R. Wilson , Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel ( Philadelphia : Fortress Press , 1980 ) ; Robert C. Culley and Thomas W. Overholt , eds . , Anthropological Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy , Semeia 21 ( 1981 ) ...
Author: Paula M. McNutt
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015046499680
Category: History
Page: 284
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In this volume Paula McNutt provides a synthesis of recent research on the nature and development of the society of ancient Israel. Focusing on Israelite history from the tribal period through the time of Persian domination, McNutt employs a social-scientific perspective to examine recent reconstructions of the social and cultural contexts that nurtured the literature of the Hebrew Bible. She also offers a helpful overview of the components and dynamics of ancient Israelite society. By investigating the intricate social processes that sustained the society of ancient Israel, McNutt enables the reader to discern the forces at work during key periods of transition and transformation in early Israelite history.
Overholt, The Channels of Prophecy: The Social Dynamics of Prophetic Activity, 70–76. Wilson, Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel, 47. Johnston, Ancient Greek Divination, 112. Ibid., 63. Wilson, Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel ...
Author: Lynda Walsh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199857111
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 264
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In Scientists as Prophets, Lynda Walsh argues that our science advisors manufacture certainty for us in the face of the unknown. Through a series of cases reaching from the Delphic oracle to seventeenth-century London to Climategate, Walsh elucidates many of the problems with our current science-advising system.