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MANTIC

A term (Gk. mantikós, “prophetic, oracular”; mántis, “diviner, seer, prophet”) designating wise individuals whose expertise was divination, and in particular manticism, or knowing the future through the interpretation of omens, visions, and dreams. Mantic wise men trained for the courts of Mesopotamia (cf. Dan. 1–6) have been suggested as the originators of the apocalypse genre.

“Mantological” and “mantic” are also used to specify the interpretive technique that reinterpreted oracles or that transformed nonoracular material into prediction of the future.

Bibliography. J. J. Collins, “The Court-Tales in Daniel and the Development of Apocalyptic,” JBL 94 (1975): 218-34; M. Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Oxford, 1985); A. L. Oppenheim, The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society n.s. 46/3 (Philadelphia, 1956).

R. Glenn Wooden






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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