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- catalog contributor b579393.
- catalog created "c1986.".
- catalog date "1986".
- catalog date "c1986.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1986.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [343]-363.".
- catalog description "I. Introduction: Prophecy in cross-cultural perspective -- Points-of-view on the prophets -- Methodological considerations -- Terminology -- Categories of comparison -- II. Texts -- A. The Americas -- An insider's view of the dynamics of Shamanism -- Contacting the spirits in the shaking tent -- The Yuqipi cult among contemporary Sioux -- Navajo diagnosticians -- Handsome Lake: the intermediary as founder of a new religion -- Wovoka, the Indian "Messiah," and the Ghost Dance of 1890 -- Consulting the spirits at an Umbanda Center -- B. The Arctic -- Siberian Shamanism -- Shamanism among the North American Eskimo -- C. Africa -- Two Nuer prophets and their pyramid -- Spirit mediums among the Shona -- D. India -- Spirit possession and its mythic prototype -- Hill Saora shamans and their tutelaries -- E. The Pacific -- Kamoai, "canoe" of the Goddess Jari -- The community designates a "cargo prophet" -- III. The sociology of storytelling and the transmission and preservaton of the intermediary's words -- Oral tradition and the Old Testament prophets -- The sociology of storytelling -- The development of the Handsome Lake -- Tradition: A case study -- Texts -- IV. Anthropological materials and the Testamentment -- Some anthropological perspectives on Old Testament prophecy -- Concluding thoughts on method.".
- catalog extent "vi, 368 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0891309004 (hard : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0891309012 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Sources for biblical study ; no. 17".
- catalog issued "1986".
- catalog issued "c1986.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press,".
- catalog subject "291.6/3 19".
- catalog subject "BL633 .O88 1986".
- catalog subject "Prophecy Comparative studies.".
- catalog subject "Prophecy.".
- catalog subject "Prophets Comparative studies.".
- catalog subject "Prophets.".
- catalog subject "Sociology, Biblical.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Introduction: Prophecy in cross-cultural perspective -- Points-of-view on the prophets -- Methodological considerations -- Terminology -- Categories of comparison -- II. Texts -- A. The Americas -- An insider's view of the dynamics of Shamanism -- Contacting the spirits in the shaking tent -- The Yuqipi cult among contemporary Sioux -- Navajo diagnosticians -- Handsome Lake: the intermediary as founder of a new religion -- Wovoka, the Indian "Messiah," and the Ghost Dance of 1890 -- Consulting the spirits at an Umbanda Center -- B. The Arctic -- Siberian Shamanism -- Shamanism among the North American Eskimo -- C. Africa -- Two Nuer prophets and their pyramid -- Spirit mediums among the Shona -- D. India -- Spirit possession and its mythic prototype -- Hill Saora shamans and their tutelaries -- E. The Pacific -- Kamoai, "canoe" of the Goddess Jari -- The community designates a "cargo prophet" -- III. The sociology of storytelling and the transmission and preservaton of the intermediary's words -- Oral tradition and the Old Testament prophets -- The sociology of storytelling -- The development of the Handsome Lake -- Tradition: A case study -- Texts -- IV. Anthropological materials and the Testamentment -- Some anthropological perspectives on Old Testament prophecy -- Concluding thoughts on method.".
- catalog title "Prophecy in cross-cultural perspective : a sourcebook for Biblical researchers / Thomas W. Overholt.".
- catalog type "text".