@book{10.2307/j.ctt14bs6hw,
 ISBN = {9781930675803},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14bs6hw},
 abstract = {This work provides an in-depth investigation of after-the-fact predictions in ancient Near Eastern texts from roughly 1200 B.C.E.–70 C.E. It argues that the Akkadian, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek works discussed are all part of a developing scribal discourse of “mantic historiography” by which scribes blend their local traditions of history writing and predictive texts to produce a new mode of historiographic expression. This in turn calls into question the use and usefulness of traditional literary categories such as “apocalypse” to analyze such works.},
 author = {Matthew Neujahr},
 publisher = {Society of Biblical Literature},
 title = {Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East: Mantic Historiography in Ancient Mesopotamia, Judah, and the Mediterranean World},
 year = {2012}
}