Text as Revelation - (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies) by Hanna Tervanotko & Jonathan Stökl

About the Book

"This volume analyses how audiences of the ancient Jewish literature had revelatory experiences by reading and interpreting the texts in their ancient contexts"--

Book Synopsis

Text as Revelation analyses the shift of revelatory experiences from oral to written that is described in ancient Jewish literature, including rabbinic texts. The individual essays seek to understand how, why, and for whom texts became the locus of revelation.

While the majority of the contributors analyze ancient Jewish literature for depictions of oral and written revelation, such as the Hebrew Bible and the literature of the Second Temple era, a number of articles also investigate textualization of revelation in cognate cultures, analyzing Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Greek sources. With subjects ranging from Ancient Egyptian and Sibylline oracles to Hellenistic writings and the books of Isaiah, Deuteronomy and Jeremiah, the studies in this volume bring together established and new voices reflecting on the issues raised by the interplay between writing and (divinatory) revelation.

About the Author

Jonathan Stökl is an assistant professor at the Institute for Area Studies, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

Hanna Tervanotko is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University, Canada, and Docent in Old Testament Exegesis, University of Helsinki, Finland.