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- Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East
- Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Inventing Prophethood?
- 2 Contextualizing Manichaean Prophetology in the Syro-Mesopotamian Borderlands
- 3 “Impregnated by the Hands of God”
- 4 Listening to the Prophet
- 5 Toward a New Prognosis
- 6 Angelic Contemplation in the Sar Torah and the Prognostic Turn
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2023
- Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East
- Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Inventing Prophethood?
- 2 Contextualizing Manichaean Prophetology in the Syro-Mesopotamian Borderlands
- 3 “Impregnated by the Hands of God”
- 4 Listening to the Prophet
- 5 Toward a New Prognosis
- 6 Angelic Contemplation in the Sar Torah and the Prognostic Turn
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book explores the shifting discourses of prophethood and prophecy in the late antique Near East. It rejects the “Cessation of Prophecy” metanarrative that frames prophecy as perpetually in decline, and charts instead a novel trajectory for understanding prophethood and prophecy as discourse. It does so by working through a number of texts from the late antique Near East, including Manichaean literature, the classical rabbinic corpus, early Jewish mystical literature, the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies, and Neoplatonic literature. It argues that we should read these communities’ developing notions of prophethood and revelation alongside and against one another, on the one hand, and within broader developments in the late antique Near East, on the other.
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- Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East , pp. 1 - 26Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023