Jonathan Stokl

Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East Jonathan Stokl

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Abbreviations -- Introduction / Corrine Carvalho, Jonathan Stokl -- Part 1. Prophecy in the Ancient Near East and Greece -- Her Outdoors: An Anthropological Perspective on Female Prophets and Prophecy / Lester L. Grabbe -- Gender and Prophetic Agency in the Ancient Near East and in Greece / Martti Nissinen -- Gender Ambiguity in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy? A Reassessment of the Data behind a Popular Theory / Jonathan Stokl -- The Misconstrued Role of the Assinnu in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy / Ilona Zsolnay -- The Role of the Female Seer/Prophet in Ancient Greece / Anselm C. Hagedorn -- Female Prophets among Montanists / Antti Marjanen -- Part 2. Prophecy in Biblical Texts -- Speaking in Dreams: The Figure of Miriam and Prophecy / Hanna Tervanotko -- Childless Female Diviners in the Bible and Beyond / Esther J. Hamori -- Misogyny in Service of Theocentricity: Legitimate or Not? / Dale Launderville -- Spermatic Spluttering Pens: Concerning the Construction and Breakdown of Prophetic Masculinity / Roland Boer -- Sex and the Single Prophet: Marital Status and Gender in Jeremiah and Ezekiel / Corrine L. Carvalho -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of Primary Texts -- Old Testament -- Deuterocanonical Works -- Pseudepigrapha -- Dead Sea Scrolls -- New Testament -- West-Semitic -- Rabbinic Literature -- Jewish Authors -- Cuneiform Texts -- Hittite/Luwian -- Egyptian -- Greek and Latin Texts -- Greek Epigraphy -- Index of Modern Authors -- Concordance of Text Numbers.