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Mediating between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient near East is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume experts analyze the variety of means by which humans historically sought to communicate with their gods and by which the gods were seen to communicate with their worshippers. In a departure from previous scholarship, this work brings together the study of prophecy, as an intuitive form of divination, with the study of technical methods of communication and other forms of...

normally responsible for identifying and interpreting revelatory signs failed? What happened when those charged with performing the divinely revealed rituals to mediate between troubled humans and the divine realm were frustrated by uncooperative gods? What happened when individuals trusted the divinatory and ritual experts and the experts simply could not live up to people’s expectations? And perhaps most importantly, what happened when, after the failed attempts of the experts, people resolved
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