Prophecy as divination

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

I would like to express my gratitude to Professors William W. Hallo and David Noel Freedman for their comments on this article.

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AS OUR UNDERSTANDING of biblical prophecy has increased, there is a growing sense that the custom is linked to the broader religious phenomenon of divination.1 The difficulty, however, lies in establishing a model that illustrates the nature of this connection. Since prophecy involves human beings, there has been a tendency to treat the procedure in isolation. This has usually, but not always, ...

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