Women's Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge

Women's Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge

Author
Esther J. Hamori (editor)John Collins (editor)
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
Year
2015
Page
288
ISBN
9780300213362
File Type
pdf
File Size
2.2 MiB

Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals a variety of traditions of women associated with divination. This sensitive and incisive book by respected scholar Esther J. Hamori examines the wide scope of women’s divinatory activities as portrayed in the Hebrew texts, offering readers a new appreciation of the surprising breadth of women’s “arts of knowledge” in biblical times. Unlike earlier approaches to the subject that have viewed prophecy separately from other forms of divination, Hamori’s study encompasses the full range of divinatory practices and the personages who performed them, from the female prophets and the medium of En-dor to the matriarch who interprets a birth omen and the “wise women” of Tekoa and Abel and more. In doing so, the author brings into clearer focus the complex, rich, and diverse world of ancient Israelite divination.

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