Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction - Hanna Tervanotko, McMaster University, Canada, and Jonathan Stökl, King's College London, UK 1. Oracles and Magic in Ancient Egypt: The Case of the "Oracular Amuletic Decrees" - Rita Lucarelli, University of California, Berkeley, USA 2. Riddle and Revelation: The Re-Use of Isaianic Prophecies within and outside the Book of Isaiah - Reinhard G. Kratz, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany 3. Writing, Revelation and Knowledge in the Aramaic Texts from Qumran - Daniel Machiela, McMaster University, Canada 4. Performing Mosaic Prophecy in the Scripturalization of Deuteronomy - Judith Newman, University of Toronto, Canada 5. Finding Jesus in the Sibylline Oracles: Textual Revelation and the Limitless Fountain of Meaning - Francis Borchardt, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong 6. Combining Prophecies as Means to Access Divine Will: Exploring and Updating Jeremiah in the Hellenistic Period - Konrad Schmid, University of Zürich, Switzerland 7.

Talking Gods: Oracular Dialogues and Writing in the Classical Greek City-State - Lisa Maurizio, Bates College, USA 8. Wisdom, Revelation, and Textuality: Insights from Ancient Judaea - Elisa Uusimäki, University of Helsinki, Finland 9. Josephus, the Teacher of Righteousness, and Prophetic Authority in the Late Second Temple Period - Pieter Hartog, Protestant Theological University, Netherlands 10. The Uses of God's Revelations to Baruch: Textualization of Revelation, Manuscript Materiality and Active Readers - Liv Lied, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway 11. Assyriology - Uri Gabbay, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Index.