Wenamuns Prophetic Mission by Christopher B. Hays - 9781646023189

Wenamuns Prophetic MissionTheocratic Rhetoric in Egypt and the Hebrew Bible\nAuthor(s): Christopher B. Hays\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Eisenbrauns\nISBN-13: 9781646023189, 978-1646023189\nSynopsis\nThe Story of Wenamun is an Egyptian travelogue from the early first millennium BCE that is enlivened by visits to exotic ports of call, piracy, intrigue, and attempted murder. It is also an underappreciated example of the intercultural exchange of theological ideas in the early Iron Age.\n\nIn Wenamuns Prophetic Mission, Christopher B. Hays identifies striking similarities between theological rhetoric in the ancient Egyptian Story of Wenamun and that of the Hebrew prophets. Hays challenges scholars of the ancient Mediterranean to reimagine the cultural milieu that gave rise to Iron Age Yahwism and ultimately to biblical monotheism, arguing that the Hebrew Bibles theocratic and monotheizing rhetoric owes more to the influence o.