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Priests, prophets, diviners, sages : a socio-historical study of religious specialists in ancient Israel / Lester L. Grabbe.

Title
Priests, prophets, diviners, sages : a socio-historical study of religious specialists in ancient Israel / Lester L. Grabbe.
Author
Grabbe, Lester L.
Publication
Valley Forge, Pa. : Trinity Press International, c1995.

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Description
xviii, 261 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • Kings and rulers > Biblical teaching
  • Priests, Jewish > Biblical teaching
  • Prophets > Biblical teaching
  • Divination > Biblical teaching
  • Wisdom > Biblical teaching
  • Sociology, Biblical
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-243) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The King. Selected Old Testament Texts. The King in the Old Testament Text. Kingship in the Ancient Near East. The King as a Cult Figure. The Religious Gestalt of the King -- 3. Priests. Selected Old Testament Texts. The Priesthood in the Old Testament Text. Cross-Cultural Parallels. The Jerusalem Priesthood. Priests at Other Sites. The Place of the High Priest. Women in the Cult. The Gestalt of the Priest -- 4. Prophets. Selected Old Testament Texts. The Prophet in the Old Testament Text. Cross-Cultural Parallels. The Problems of Definition. Modes of Revelation. Cultic Prophets. Prophetic Conflict: "True" and "False" Prophecy. Prophetesses. The Gestalt of the Prophet -- 5. Diviners, Healers, and Others. Selected Old Testament Texts. The Diviner in the Old Testament Text. Cross-Cultural Parallels. Introduction to Divination. Spirit Divination and Prophecy. The Cult of the Dead. Dreams and Dreamers. Shamanism. The Gestalt of the Diviner -- 6. The Wise. Selected Old Testament Texts. The Wise According to the Old Testament Text. The Wise in the Ancient Near Eastern Texts. The Problem: Who Were the Wise? Wisdom and Apocalypticism. The Gestalt of the Wise -- 7. From Text to Society. Religious Specialists according to the Texts. Cross-Cultural Comparisons. What Did the Society Look Like? Which Society and When? -- 8. Concluding Essay.
ISBN
156338132X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^95032747^
OCLC
  • 32890941
  • SCSB-11179179
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library