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Priests, Prophets, Diviners, Sages: A Socio-Historical Study of Religious Specialists in Ancient Israel Lester L. Grabbe Retail Price: $20.00 CenturyOne Price: $0.00 Availability: Out-Of-Print Format: Paperback, 261pp. ISBN: 156338132X Publisher: Trinity Press International Pub. Date: October 1995 Average Customer Review: Description From The Publisher: In this book Professor Grabbe undertakes the first serious analysis of the interactive roles of religious specialists in ancient Israel. The first portion of the book focuses on the problems of historical and sociological study, especially the crucial problem of whether the text reflects an actual historical society. Then follows studies of the five main forms of religious specialists considered as Weberian "ideal types," that is, as if each existed in pure form in society. Cross-cultural parallels elsewhere in the ancient Near East and, in some cases, from modern anthropological studies are examined, ending with a composite picture of the various specialists and how they related to one another. Table of Contents Preface Abbreviations Chapter 1 Introduction Aims of the Study Problems of Historical Reconstruction The Nature of the Sources Can We Get Past the Problem of the Text? How the Method Works The Contribution of the Social Sciences The Method of Proceeding Preliminary Conclusions about the Text and Society Chapter 2 The King Selected Old Testament Texts The King in the Old Testament Text Kingship in the Ancient Near East The King as a Cult Figure The Religious Gestalt of the King Chapter 3 Priests Selected Old Testament Texts The Priesthood in the Old Testament Text Cross-Cultural Parallels The Jerusalem Priesthood Priests at Other Sites The Place of the High Priest Women in the Cult The Gestalt of the Priest Chapter 4 Prophets Selected Old Testament Texts The Prophet in the Old Testament Text Cross-Cultural Parallels The Problems of Definition Modes of Revelation Chapter 5 Diviners, Healers, and Others Selected Old Testament Texts The Diviner in the Old Testament Text Cross-Cultural Parallels Introduction to Divination Spirit Divination and Prophecy The Cult of the Dead Dreams and Dreamers Shamanism The Gestalt of the Diviner Chapter 6 The Wise Selected Old Testament Texts The Wise According to the Old Testament Text The Wise in the Ancient Near Eastern Texts The Problem: Who Were the Wise? Wisdom and Apocalypticism The Gestalt of the Wise Chapter 7 From Text to Society Religious Specialists According to the Texts Cross-Cultural Comparisons What Did the Society Look Like? Which Society and When? Chapter 8 Concluding Essay Bibliography Index of Modern Authors Citation Index Customer Reviews Write your own online review. Look for Similar Books by Subject

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