Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East

"Offers an interdisciplinary account of prophecy as a topic of discourse among various late antique Near Eastern communities. Against assumptions that prophecy ceased in the past, this book argues that it remained a topic of discourse among various Near Eastern communities"--

Table des matières

1. Inventing prophethood? Baraies the Teacher and his homily; 2. Contextualizing Manchaean prophetology in the Syro-Mesopotamian borderlands; 3. 'Impregnated by the hands of God': The pseudo-Clementine Homilies as counter-Manichaean prophetology; 4. Listening to the prophet: late Antique ideologies of oral revelation; 5. Towards a new prognosis: Neoplatonists, Manichaeans, and the Ps.-Clementine Homilies; 6. Angelic contemplation in the Sar Torah and the prognostic turn.

A propos de l'auteur

Jae Hee Han is an Assistant Professor of in the Religious Studies Department and Program in Jewish Studies at Brown University.

Résumé

Offers an interdisciplinary account of prophecy as a topic of discourse among various late antique Near Eastern communities. Against assumptions that prophecy ceased in the past, this book argues that it remained a topic of discourse among various Near Eastern communities.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jae Hee Han, Jae Hee (Brown University Han
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781009297752
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0929775-2
• Pages: 350
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Religion: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Antiquité; Iran, HISTORY / Ancient / General, RELIGION / Christianity / Denominations, RELIGION / Blasphemy, Heresy & Apostasy, Christian Churches & denominations, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Sacred texts, Christian leaders & leadership, East Asia, Far East, Iraq, Ancient History, Religious and spiritual figures, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Relating to Christian people and groups, BCE to c 500 CE, RELIGION / Christian Living / Leadership & Mentoring, 3rd century, c 200 to c 299, Sacred texts, scriptures and revered writings, Blasphemy, Heresy, Apostasy, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents