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A study of the phenomenon of prophecy as documented in ancient Near Eastern texts and the Hebrew Bible as well as Greek sources, from the twenty-first century BCE to the second century CE.
Prophecy --- Prophets --- History. --- Minor prophets --- Prophethood --- Seers --- Persons --- Forecasting --- prophecy --- divination --- oracle --- Hebrew Bible --- Delphi --- Didyma --- Dodona --- Claros --- ecstasy --- gender
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The title of this volume, Sacred Marriages, consciously plays with the traditional concept of sacred marriage, but the plural form, "sacred marriages," gives the reader an idea that something more is at stake here than a monomaniacal idea of manifestations deriving from a single prototype. Following the guidelines of one of the contributors, Ruben Zimmermann, the editors tentatively define "sacred marriage" as a "real or symbolic union of two complementary entities, imagined as gendered, in a religious context." "Sacred marriages" (plural), then, refers to various expressions of this kind of union in different cultures that seek to overcome, to cite Zimmermann again, "the great dualism of human and cosmic existence."The subtitle indicates that the contributors are primarily interested in different aspects of the divine-human sexual metaphor-that is, the imagining and reenactment of a gendered relationship between the human and divine worlds. This metaphor, which is essentially about relationship rather than sexual acts, can find textual, ritual, mythical, and social expressions in different times and places.Indeed, the sacred marriage ritual itself should be considered not a manifestation of the "sacralized power of sexuality experienced in sexual intercourse" but one way of objectifying the divine-human sexual metaphor.
Marriage --- Spirituality. --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- Religious aspects. --- Spirituality --- 265.5 --- 291.37 --- 265.5 Huwelijk --- Huwelijk --- Religious aspects --- Godsdienstige ceremonieën. Religieuze symboliek. Mysteries. Inwijding --- SELF-HELP --- RELIGION --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Spiritual. --- Inspirational.
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"This volume brings together a representative sample of ancient Near Eastern written documents of prophecy from the second and first millennia BCE and provides nonspecialist readers translations, transliterations, and discussions of oracle reports and collections, quotations of prophetic messages in letters and literature, and texts that reference persons with prophetic titles. This second edition includes thirty-four new texts"--
Prophets --- Minor prophets --- Prophethood --- Seers --- Persons --- History.
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