When Gods Speak to Men: Divine Speech According to Textual Sources in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin (Orbis Biblicus Et Orientalis)

"The nature of divine speech in Antiquity in the Mediterranean Basin has often been the object of scholarly analysis, especially regarding its divinatory context and questions of genre and rhetoric. The present volume not only provokes a dialogue with this past research, but seeks to respond to a problem that has received little consideration until now: the articulation of divine speech with the various forms of its representation (linguistic, literary, and material). The aim is to analyze the nature of divine speech through its materiality and the impact of the latter on the former's definition and evolution." --Résumé de l'éditeur CONTENTS WHEN GODS SPEAK TO MEN: DIVINE SPEECH ACCORDING TO TEXTUAL SOURCES IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN BASIN. INTRODUCTION WHEN EGYPTIAN GODS SPEAK: DIVINE DISCOURSE IN CONTEXT DIVINE SPEECH IN HITTITE DREAMS “NOW SEE HOW THE MIGHTY STORM-GOD MY LORD IS RUNNING BEFORE ME:” REVELATION OF DIVINE POWER IN HITTITE HISTORIOGRAPHY ORACLES AS ARTEFACTS: THE MATERIAL ASPECT OF PROPHECY BIBLICAL PROPHECY: WRITING AND MEDIA ASSOCIATED LANGUAGE OF GODS, PYTHIAN APOLLO AND PLATO’S CRATYLUS GODS’ SECRETARIES: ON PRESERVING ORACLES IN THE GREEK ORACULAR SHRINES DURING HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN TIMES DIVINE SIGNS IN ANCIENT ROME OR HOW TO PUT THE VOICE OF THE GODS INTO WORDS INDICES "The nature of divine speech in Antiquity in the Mediterranean Basin has often been the object of scholarly analysis, especially regarding its divinatory context and questions of genre and rhetoric. The present volume not only provokes a dialogue with this past research, but seeks to respond to a problem that has received little consideration until now: the articulation of divine speech with the various forms of its representation (linguistic, literary, and material). The aim is to analyze the nature of divine speech through its materiality and the impact of the latter on the former's definition and evolution." --back cover