Mediating Between Heaven and Earth - Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	T. & T. Clark
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Release date:	June 2012
First published:	May 2012
Editors:	C. L. Crouch • Jonathan Stoekl • Anna Elise Zernecke
Dimensions:	241 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	208
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-567-46162-9
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-567-46162-9
Barcode:	9780567461629

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