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Document Details : Title: Divinatory Process in Judah Subtitle: Mantic Marginalia and the Growth of Isaiah 7,10-17 Author(s): COOLEY, Jeffrey L. Journal: Biblica Volume: 101 Issue: 1 Date: 2020 Pages: 26-46 DOI: 10.2143/BIB.101.1.3287513 Abstract : This article reexamines the growth of Isa 7,10-17 and shows that the pericope features a number of interpretive techniques that are also on display in the contemporaneous letters from Babylonian and Assyrian diviner-scholars to the Assyrian monarch Esarhaddon concerning the meaning of a certain lunar eclipse. These techniques include: 1) the reorientation of the omen’s character; 2) the contemporizing/reinterpretation of terms; and 3) the specific identification of contemporary sovereigns/polities. Ultimately, the author argues that the textual growth of Isa 7,10-17 is best explained not through historical-literary reflection, as has been traditionally maintained, but rather as the result of active divinatory consultation. |
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