When Gods Speak to Men

Divine Speech according to Textual Sources in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin

edited by S. Anthonioz, A. Mouton and D. Petit

Book cover: When Gods Speak to Men

Extent: 148 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Near East, Classical Studies

Series: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis

Series volume number: 289

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2019)

ISBN: 9789042941328

Price: $90.00

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PDF (Published)

(December 2019)

ISBN: 9789042941335

Price: $113.00

The nature of divine speech in Antiquity in the Mediterranean Basin has often been the object of scholarly analysis, especially regarding its divinatory context and questions of genre and rhetoric. The present volume not only provokes a dialogue with this past research, but seeks to respond to a problem that has received little consideration until now: the articulation of divine speech with the various forms of its representation (linguistic, literary, and material). The aim is to analyze the nature of divine speech through its materiality and the impact of the latter on the former’s definition and evolution.


The nature of divine speech in Antiquity in the Mediterranean Basin has often been the object of scholarly analysis, especially regarding its divinatory context and questions of genre and rhetoric. The present volume not only provokes a dialogue with this past research, but seeks to respond to a problem that has received little consideration until now: the articulation of divine speech with the various forms of its representation (linguistic, literary, and material). The aim is to analyze the nature of divine speech through its materiality and the impact of the latter on the former’s definition and evolution.

  • Edited by S Anthonioz
  • Edited by A Mouton
  • Edited by D Petit