Akitu Festival                                                         

Annual Festival celebrated by the Babalyonians at which they paraded statues of thier gods through Babalyon.

Aramaisms

Words or expression in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament that suggest the langauge has been influenced by Aramaic. 

Simply meaning the "second Isaiah" this term is used by those Scholars who held to a mulitple-author view of Isaiah to refer to the author of chapters 40-66.

People who resided in and around the ancient city of Mari, of whom many scholars have noted parallels with the biblical prophets.

Relating to eschatology

Usually castrated men, especially those formerly employed as harem attendants or officers of state. The term is applied to men of Eygpt.

Prophets to whom God revealed the future sometimes the near future sometimes the near future and sometimes the distance future and who then declared it to their own generations; the prophet spoke of judgment and of restoration, of bad news and good news, primarily to motivate God's people to faithful living in the present.

Prophets who told forth God's truth to their own generation; the prophets pointed out the evils of their day and called the people to repent, warning them that while the covenant brought many privileges, so it also brought many responsibilities, including justice, righteousness, and holiness.

Mesopotamian "goddess of love and the heroine of war" depicted as a harlot, part of the Babylonian pantheon, Ishtar was the wife of Tammuz, a mesopotamian agricultural god, whose followers believed that year at harvest time, Tammuz died.

Name given by many interpreters to Isaiah 24-27 because these chapters read like a miniature  Book of Revelation, serving as a grand conclusion to Isaiah's oracles of chapters 13-23 and annoucing God's final judgment of the world and the ultimate salvation of his people.

One of the basic categories of evidence regarding the existence of prophecy in other civilizations of the bibical world and its relationship to the bibical prophets

According to some evangelicals, a literal thousand-year reign of Christ on earth with his saints following his second coming (see Premillennialism).

Collection of text that began to be compiled during the old Babylonian Period

Term used to describe the custom of attributing a writing to someone other than the real author.

Hebrew word  often used in reference to the place where the dead were believed to dwell, a place of darkness, silence whose inhabitants are unable to praise God and know nothing who are merely shadows of their former selves. 

Mesopotoamian agricultural god, husband of the goddess Ishtar, whose followers believed that every year at harvest time, Tammuz died; the women Ezekiel saw in his vision weeping at the Jerusalem temple were joining Ishtar in the mouring of Tammuz's death.

Simply meaning the "third Isaiah", this term is used by those scholars who hold to a multiple-author view of Isaiah to refer to the author chapters.

Subordinate party in a suzerainty treaty.

Latin phrase meaning "prophecy after the fact" or "a prophecy from the outcome."

Judgment speeches typically begining with the word "woe" that is an exclamation of grief, distress,affiction, or lament.