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The Primordial History: Genesis 1–11 and the Ancient Near East

Explore key narratives in Genesis 1–11, from creation to Babel, compared with their Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Sumerian counterparts to reveal how Is...

Revelation and Its Literary Siblings

Explore how the book of Revelation shares its visions, angels, beasts, and cosmic judgment with an entire family of Jewish apocalyptic texts written i...

From the Tablet of Destinies to the Book of Life

Explore how the Mesopotamian idea of divine tablets that tracked everyone's destiny evolved through the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Jewish literature,...

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Hebrew Bible

Genesis 44:5 / Jubilees 43:10 Deuteronomy 18:10 / Wisdom of Solomon 12:4 Deuteronomy 18:10 / 2 Kings 21:6 Deuteronomy 18:10 / Malachi 3:5 Deuteronomy 18:10 / Isaiah 47:12

Septuagint

LXX Deuteronomy 18:10 / Acts 16:16

Deuterocanon

Sirach 34:1 / 1 Enoch 14:8

Early Christian

Clement of Alexandria Selections from the Prophets 53:4 / 1 Enoch 8:1

Matching Reference Citations

Hebrew Bible

Leviticus 19:26 / 1 Samuel 14:32 Deuteronomy 18:10 / Malachi 3:5 Numbers 21:6 / Jeremiah 8:17 Genesis 4:26 / Exodus 6:3 Deuteronomy 18:10 / 2 Kings 21:6 Job 32:18 / Sirach 19:10 Deuteronomy 18:10 / Isaiah 47:12 Jeremiah 29:8 / Sirach 34:1 Genesis 15:5 / Deuteronomy 1:10 Genesis 44:5 / Jubilees 43:10 Genesis 3:1 / Numbers 24:1 Deuteronomy 18:10 / Isaiah 8:19 Genesis 31:19 / 1 Samuel 19:13

Pseudepigrapha

1 Enoch 8:2 / Jubilees 8:3

Texts in Conversation

Hebrew Bible

Deuteronomy 18:10 / 2 Kings 21:6 Deuteronomy 18:10 / Malachi 3:5 Jeremiah 29:8 / Sirach 34:1 Deuteronomy 18:10 / Wisdom of Solomon 12:4 Deuteronomy 18:10 / Isaiah 47:12 Leviticus 19:26 / 1 Samuel 14:32 Genesis 44:5 / Jubilees 43:10

Pseudepigrapha

1 Enoch 8:1 / Clement of Alexandria Selections from the Prophets 53:4

Classical

Hesiod Theogony / 1 Enoch 8:1 Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 106 / 1 Enoch 8:1 Aeschylus Prometheus Bound 106 / 1 Enoch 7:1

Glossary Terms

Divination

Reference Library

Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World

Scurlock, Joann • Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago • 2010

Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern Environment: A Socio-Historical Investigation

Cryer, Frederick H. • JSOT Press • 1994

Perchance to Dream: Dream Divination in the Bible and the Ancient Near East

Noegel, Scott B. • SBL Press • 2018

Perchance to Dream: Dream Divination in the Bible and the Ancient Near East

Stökl, Jonathan • SBL Press • 2018

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