Prophetic and Apocalyptic Divination: What Makes the Difference?

of P; both are forms of divination
Collins: distinction between P and A is necessary; divination is not a helpful category
Current models:
Overlap between late P and early A (Cook)
A secondary transformation of P (Hendel)
A as inheritance and continuation of P (Najman, Høgenhaven)

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Prophecy and Apocalypticism: status quaestionis

phenomena with phenomena?
Apocalypticism: literary definition (genre-based)
Prophecy: social definition (prophet-based)
Can the map include both?

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Comparative Asymmetry

a network of ideas and practices
Divination: the art of acquiring superhuman knowledge
Inductive/technical: extispicy, astrology, augury, exorcism, etc.
Non-inductive/inspired: prophecy, dreams, visions, etc.

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Prophecies and Apocalypses as Divination

prophecies
Creation of a new type of literature: the prophetic book
Mesopotamia:
Decline of oral prophetic performance and extispicy (bārûtu )
Rise of exorcism (āšipūtu) and interpretation of intellectual tradition
Scholarly agency: intellectual leadership

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Changes in Divinatory Culture

– prophetic process of transmission
Learned interpretation of textual material and its appropriation in a new setting
Diverse roots: not either/or but both/and
Prophetic books and other authoritative texts
Mesopotamian astronomy and āšipūtu
Persian motifs

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Apocalypticism: A New Type of Divination