Text as Revelation - Hanna Tervanotko

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Résumé :
Text as Revelation analyses the shift of revelatory experiences from oral to written that is described in ancient Jewish literature, including rabbinic texts. The individual essays seek to understand how, why, and for whom texts became the locus of revelation. While the majority of the contributors analyze ancient Jewish literature for depictions of oral and written revelation, such as the Hebrew Bible and the literature of the Second Temple era, a number of articles also investigate textualization of revelation in cognate cultures, analyzing Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Greek sources. With subjects ranging from Ancient Egyptian and Sibylline oracles to Hellenistic writings and the books of Isaiah, Deuteronomy and Jeremiah, the studies in this volume bring together established and new voices reflecting on the issues raised by the interplay between writing and (divinatory) revelation.

Biographie:
Jonathan St?kl is an assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Hanna Tervanotko is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University, Canada, and Docent in Old Testament Exegesis, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Sommaire:
Preface List of Contributors Revelation as Text and the Textualization of Revelation. Mesopotamia in the First Millenium BCE: Omens and Commentaries, Uri Gabay Riddles and Revelation: The Re-Use of Isaianic Prophecies within and outside the Book of Isaiah, Reinhard G. Kratz Combining Prophecies as Means to Access the Divine Will: Exploring and updating Jeremiah in the Hellenistic Period, Konrad Schmid Writing and Divination in Ancient Greece, Lisa Maurizio Divine Revelation and Inheritance of Prophecy in the Aramaic Literature from Qumran, Daniel Machiela Sages as Mediators of Knowledge in Jewish Antiquity, Elisa Uusim?ki Writing with Prophets in Late Second Temple Judaism: Josephus and the Teacher of Righteousness, Pieter B. Hartog Finding Jesus in the Sibylline Oracles: Textual Revelation and the Limitless Fountain of Meaning, Francis Borchardt Index