“Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela”: Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period

Published by Penn State University Press 2013

“Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela”

Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period

Edited by: Robert P. Gordon and Hans Barstad

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575068602

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Thus Speaks Ishtar is a collection of essays about prophets and prophecy in the ancient Near East during the “Neo-Assyrian Period.” This was the time when some of Israel’s greatest prophets emerged, and we also have from the same general period a number of prophetic texts found on the site of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh. The book examines the basic idea of prophecy and how this is shaped by the way we study the subject, and it then presents a number of fresh insights on a range of prophetic topics. These include the relationship between Israelite and other forms of prophecy in Assyria and Egypt and the relationship between what prophets said and the written forms in which their words were passed on. Other topics of contemporary interest include what these prophetic texts have to say about the environment, the place of intercession in Israelite and Assyrian religion, and whether the message of the trailblazing Israelite prophets of the eighth century was basically about judgment and community ruin or about hope and community well-being.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Prophecy as Construct, Ancient and Modern Martti Nissinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Prophecy in the Mari and Nineveh Archives Robert P. Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Prophecy in K1285? Re-evaluating the Divine Speech Episodes of Nabû Jason Atkinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Hosea and the Assyrians Hans M. Barstad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Micah in Neo-Assyrian Light Bob Becking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Ištar and the Motif of the Cosmological Warrior Assurbanipal’s Adaptation of Enuma Elish C. L. Crouch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
The Post-722 and Late Pre-exilic Compositions Underlying the Amos-Text Graham Hamborg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Royal Cultic Prophecy in Assyria, Judah, and Egypt John W. Hilber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Ecology, Theology, Society Physical, Religious, and Social Disjuncture in Biblical and Neo-Assyrian Prophetic Texts Hilary Marlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
The Prophet Micah and Political Society David J. Reimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Prophecy in Israel and Assyria: Are We Comparing Apples and Pears? The Materiality of Writing and the Avoidance of Parallelomania Joachim Schaper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
“I Have Rained Stones and Fiery Glow on Their Heads!” Celestial and Meteorological Prophecy in the Neo-Assyrian Empire Jonathan Stökl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Were the Neo-Assyrian Prophets Intercessors? A Comparative Study of Neo-Assyrian and Hebrew Texts Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Isaiah: Prophet of Weal or Woe? H. G. M. Williamson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Index of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Index of Scripture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Index of Other Ancient Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Pages
- Main content: 336

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Published: September 26, 2013
ISBN: 9781575068602