Imperial visions : the prophet and the book of Isaiah in an age of empires / Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Joachim Schaper (eds.).

Imperial visions : the prophet and the book of Isaiah in an age of empires / Reinhard Gregor Kratz, Joachim Schaper (eds.).

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Corporate author / creator:	Aberdeen Prophecy Network. Meeting (5th : 2015 : Göttingen, Germany)
Imprint:	Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2020] ©2020
Description:	202 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments, 2198-1183 ; volume 277 Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments ; v. 277.
Subject:	Isaiah -- (Biblical prophet) Bible. -- Isaiah -- History of contemporary events. Assyria -- In the Bible. Iran -- In the Bible. Babylon (Extinct city) -- In the Bible.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12447991

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Kratz, Reinhard Gregor, 1957- editor. Schaper, Joachim, editor.
ISBN:	9783525560358 3525560354
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"In recent years, an interest in empire(s) has emerged in Assyriology, Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Studies and in other areas of the study of the ancient world. Collaborative research projects are devoted to questions of empire and imperialism, and the prophets of Israel and Judah and the books named after them are explored as agents in the contexts of the empires of their times. To some degree, all of this may be seen as a revival of the intense interest which the works of Oswald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee and Karl Wittfogel generated in the twentieth century, in historical situations very different from our own age. But then we too live in an age of transition characterized by insecurity and a lack of orientation and are driven to study the rise and fall of empires through the ages. The present volume, containing essays which are the fruits of the fifth meeting of the Aberdeen Prophecy Network, at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the University of Göttingen in October 2015, provides a distinctive perspective on prophecy in the context of empire. It is inspired by the fact that the book of Isaiah enables us to follow the vagaries of a particular prophetic tradition through five centuries under three different empires. The essays in the present volume focus on the history of composition of the constituent parts of the book of Isaiah as well as their correlations with the political and cultural histories of the empires under which they were produced. The volume thus navigates some of the key points of the history of Isaiah and the book named after him." --provided by publisher

Regenstein, Bookstacks

Loading map link

Holdings details from Regenstein, Bookstacks
Call Number:	BS1515.52.A224 2015
c.1	Available Loan period: standard loan Scan and Deliver Request for Pickup Need help? - Ask a Librarian