@book{2026:hays:prophecy_i,
title = {Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Egypt},
year = {2026},
note = {Throughout their histories, ancient Egypt and ancient Israel/Judah
were in regular contact. Egypt was for Israel an important political
and cultural point of reference as its neighbour across the land
bridge of North Sinai. Egyptian influence on Israel and the larger
Levant was intense throughout the 1st millennium BCE, an area that had
been a province of Egypt in the preceding Late Bronze Age (1550–1100
BCE). The cultural dialogue between the two areas took place by means
of the movements of population groups and via trade and diplomacy.
Narrowing the focus to the genre of prophecy, the comparative
situation is more difficult, since we seem to encounter here one of
the aforementioned literary differences: Although ancient Egypt was
deeply invested in divination in its myriad forms, the Egyptians did
not generally record or compile prophetic utterances, at least as far
as the data tell us. This has led a fair number of scholars to
conclude that prophecy did not exist in Egypt; and if prophecy did not
exist in Egypt, then what is there to compare? The present volume
seeks to call new attention to the numerous ways in which knowledge of
ancient Egypt played a role in the formation of the Hebrew Bible and
is thus crucial to its interpretation. The studies compiled here
enrich our body of data about divinatory practices, refine our
comparative methodology, and point to a variety of ways in which our
understanding of the Hebrew Bible’s major prophets is informed by
Egyptological data. Taken together, they invite further study on
related fronts. It is to be hoped that these perspectives will be
further integrated into the wider picture of ancient Near Eastern
religions.                                                           
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edition = {1},
publisher = {Zaphon},
address = {Münster},
series = {Ägypten und Altes Testament},
volume = {135},
editor = {Hays, Christopher B. and Huddlestun, John and Schneider, Thomas}
}