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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...

Naveh goes on to draw a parallel to the construction of the city wall in Neh 3.24 This parallel should not be taken too far, however, since by implication it ties the dedicatory inscriptions exclusively to the construction phase of the temple wall on Mount Gerizim, and this is contradicted by the material itself since at least some of the stones were not originally prepared for an inscription, but the inscriptions were added only after the stones were set in place in the wall.25 Therefore, rather
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