"Thus speaks Ishtar of Arbela"
Subtitle: prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian period
By: edited by Robert P. Gordon and Hans M. Barstad
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781575062822; 9781575068602
Subjects: Judaism; Prophetie; Prophets; Relation to the Old Testament; Assyro-Babylonian literature; Religion; Comparative studies; Congresses; Prophecy
Notes: "This volume presents fourteen of the papers read at a meeting of the Edinburgh Prophecy Network held at New College, Edinburgh, on 1-12 December 2009"ECIP introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Prophecy as construct : ancient and modern / Martti Nissinen; title: Prophecy in the Mari and Nineveh archives / Robert P. Gordon; title: Prophecy in K1285? Re-evaluating the divine speech episodes of Nabû / Jason Atkinson; title: Hosea and the Assyrians / Hans M. Barstad; title: Micah in Neo-Assyrian light / Bob Becking; title: Ištar and the motif of the cosmological warrior : Assurbanipal's adaptation of Enuma Elish / C.L. Crouch; title: The post-722 and late pre-exilic compositions underlying the Amos-text / Graham Hamborg; title: Royal cultic prophecy in Assyria, Judah, and Egypt / John W. Hilber; title: Ecology, theology, society : physical, religious, and social disjuncture in biblical and Neo-Assyrian prophetic texts / Hilary Marlow; title: The prophet Micah and political society / David J. Reimer; title: Prophecy in Israel and Assyria: are we comparing apples and pears? The materiality of writing and the avoidance of parallelomania / Joachim Schaper; title: "I have rained stones and fiery glow on their heads!" Celestial and meteorological prophecy in the Neo-Assyrian empire / Jonathan Stökl; title: Were the Neo-Assyrian prophets intercessors? A comparative study of Neo-Assyrian and Hebrew texts / Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer; title: Isaiah : prophet of weal or woe? / H.G.M. Williamson.