Christopher B. Hays, John Huddlestun, and Thomas Schneider: Introduction: Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Egypt

I. Prophecy and Divination in Egypt

Alexandra von Lieven: Divine Will and Human Decision-Making: Divinatory Techniques in Ancient Egypt and their Hermeneutics

John W. Hilber: Egyptian Prophecy: Clarifying Some Issues

Elisabeth Sawerthal: Women Who Know: Female Diviners and Power in Ancient Egypt and in the Hebrew Bible

II. The Prophet Jeremiah and Ancient Egypt

Thomas Schneider: The Knowledge of Prophet Jeremiah: Introductory Remarks about Knowledge Exchange between Biblical Scholarship and Egyptology

Wolfgang Zwickel: Scribes in Judah and the Knowledge of Egypt

Katja Weiß: Knowledge Transfer and Contextualization in Jeremiah 46:13–26: What Could Jeremiah Have Seen and Heard in Saitic Egypt ?

Christoffer Theis: הֶעֱבִיר (Heʿebîr) in Jeremiah 46:17: Egyptian or Hebrew?

Stefan Jakob Wimmer: Between the Letters – Why are There No Hieratic Numerals in the Hebrew Bible? (Or: Did Jeremiah Know Hieratic?)

James K. Hoffmeier: A Survey of Some Egyptian Aspects of Political, Historic, and Toponymic Materials in the Book of Jeremiah

Aren M. Wilson-Wright: Lions Gone Wild: Echoes of the Egyptian “Destruction of Humanity” Myth in Jeremiah 51:38–39

III. Other Hebrew Prophets and Ancient Egypt

John Huddlestun: First Isaiah: A Literary Polymath between Egypt and Assyria?

John Gee: Isaiah 19 in the Context of Late Period Egypt

Danʾel Kahn: Fantastic Creatures and Where to Find Them: The Angel of YHWH, the Srrf and Flying Serpents

Christopher B. Hays: ‘Their Threshold by My Threshold’ (Ezekiel 43): Temple-Tombs and Royal Ancestor Cults in Egypt and Jerusalem

Indices

List of Contributors