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• catalog contributor b3872976.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-360) and indexes.".
• catalog description "Introduction -- Soci-owl-ogy? -- History? -- Ancient history and sociology? -- Conclusion -- Two cautionary notes about Old Testament social history -- 1. Why magic? -- E. B. Taylor -- J.G. Frazer -- M. Mauss-H. Hubert -- Analysis -- E. Durkheim -- B. Malinowski -- D.L. O'Keefe -- 2. Evans-Pritchard and the Azande: A magic society -- Azande divination -- The poison oracle -- The termites oracle -- The mapingo oracle -- The rubbing-board oracle -- Zande witch-doctors -- Interpretations -- 3. Between the rivers-and elsewhere -- Excurses: The problem of literacy -- The phenomenology of Mesopotamian divination -- Methods, geographic and chronological distribution -- Astrology -- Oil omens -- Incense omens -- Birth omens -- Excurses: "Empiracal" omens? -- Excurses: The so-called "historical" omens -- The interpretation of dreams -- Speech omens -- Summa alu -- Physiognomic and diagnostic omens -- Extispicy: The omen sacrifice -- The procedure of extispicy -- The interpretation of the omen sacrifice -- Unusual genres -- Necromancy -- Akkadian "prophecies" -- Divination as an intellectual activity: Omens and the literary -- Tradition -- The actors -- What did it all mean? -- 4. Some qualifications -- Egypt -- Divination among the Hittites -- Summary -- 5. Divination in ancient Israel -- Methodological evaluation -- The problems of prophecy and history -- The problem of the historical tradition -- A control investigation -- Historical conclusion -- Descriptive survey of Israelite divination -- Dreams -- Mesopotamian dreaming in Israel -- The T eraphim -- Lots: Or were they? The problem of the Urim and Thummim -- The Goral-lot -- The Ephod and the Ark -- The Ark -- Other forms of Israelite divination -- Signs -- The priestly oracle -- Excurses: Did the Israelites use the omen sacrifices? -- 6. The literary uses of divination -- Conclusion.".
• catalog extent "367 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "1850753539".
• catalog isPartOf "Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 142".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Sheffield, Eng. : JSOT Press,".
• catalog spatial "Middle East.".
• catalog subject "BL613 .C78 1994".
• catalog subject "Bible. Old Testament History of Biblical events.".
• catalog subject "Divination Biblical teaching.".
• catalog subject "Divination History".
• catalog subject "Divination Middle East.".
• catalog subject "Israel".
• catalog subject "Magic.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Soci-owl-ogy? -- History? -- Ancient history and sociology? -- Conclusion -- Two cautionary notes about Old Testament social history -- 1. Why magic? -- E. B. Taylor -- J.G. Frazer -- M. Mauss-H. Hubert -- Analysis -- E. Durkheim -- B. Malinowski -- D.L. O'Keefe -- 2. Evans-Pritchard and the Azande: A magic society -- Azande divination -- The poison oracle -- The termites oracle -- The mapingo oracle -- The rubbing-board oracle -- Zande witch-doctors -- Interpretations -- 3. Between the rivers-and elsewhere -- Excurses: The problem of literacy -- The phenomenology of Mesopotamian divination -- Methods, geographic and chronological distribution -- Astrology -- Oil omens -- Incense omens -- Birth omens -- Excurses: "Empiracal" omens? -- Excurses: The so-called "historical" omens -- The interpretation of dreams -- Speech omens -- Summa alu -- Physiognomic and diagnostic omens -- Extispicy: The omen sacrifice -- The procedure of extispicy -- The interpretation of the omen sacrifice -- Unusual genres -- Necromancy -- Akkadian "prophecies" -- Divination as an intellectual activity: Omens and the literary -- Tradition -- The actors -- What did it all mean? -- 4. Some qualifications -- Egypt -- Divination among the Hittites -- Summary -- 5. Divination in ancient Israel -- Methodological evaluation -- The problems of prophecy and history -- The problem of the historical tradition -- A control investigation -- Historical conclusion -- Descriptive survey of Israelite divination -- Dreams -- Mesopotamian dreaming in Israel -- The T eraphim -- Lots: Or were they? The problem of the Urim and Thummim -- The Goral-lot -- The Ephod and the Ark -- The Ark -- Other forms of Israelite divination -- Signs -- The priestly oracle -- Excurses: Did the Israelites use the omen sacrifices? -- 6. The literary uses of divination -- Conclusion.".
• catalog title "Divination in ancient Israel and its Near Eastern environment : a socio-historical investigation / Frederick H. Cryer.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".