Predicting the past in the ancient Near East mantic historiography in ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean world / [electronic resource] :
Matthew Neujahr.
- Providence, Rhode Island : Brown Judaic Studies, [2012]
- 1 online resource (xv, 300 p.)
- Brown Judaic studies ; no. 354 .
- Brown Judaic studies ; no. 354. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-282) and index.
The Akkadian ex eventu compositions : texts, notes, and discussion -- The genre problem : ancient contexts and modern categories -- Daniel and 1 Enoch : ex eventu prediction in the early historical apocalypses -- Ex eventu prediction in the Dead Sea scrolls -- Ex eventu prediction in Greek dress : the case of the Sibylline Oracles -- Literary tropes and analytical categories : mantic historiography in the ancient Near East.
Bible.--Old Testament--History of contemporary events.
Prophecy in literature. Assyro-Babylonian literature--Relation to the Old Testament. Assyro-Babylonian literature--History and criticism. HISTORY / Ancient / General