TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rannfrid I. Thelle
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Ask God
T2  - Divine Consultation in the Literature of the Hebrew Bible
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1093100
N2  - Through a study of several Hebrew words for «asking», this book explores a number of texts dealing with divine consultation. In contexts of war, illness, national disaster and other situations, experts such as prophets, priests, men of God and kings consult YHWH. The divine response is either favorable or unfavorable. The pattern of: situation of distress, divine consultation and divine response reflects not merely a literary genre, but a situation able to tell us something about ancient Israelite prophecy. Ask God also shows that the strict dichotomy traditionally upheld between prophecy and divination is not always tenable.
KW  - Rat, Consultance, Prayer
LA  - English
ER  -