Introduction" - C.L.Crouch, J.Stokl, Anna Elise Zernecke; "The Diversity of Human Communication with God in the Hebrew Psalter" - Erhard S. Gerstenberger, Philipps-Universitat Marburg; "The Exclusivity of Divine Communication in Ancient Israel" - Herbert Huffmon, Drew University; "'May he last with the sun': Psalm 72 in its Northern Syrian Context" - Jan Dietrich, University of Leipzig; "The Growth of a Prayer. Textual Criticism and Ishtar 2" - Anna Elise Zernecke, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; "Prayers and personal piety" - Margaret Jaques, University of Zurich; "The Curious Case of Ludlul Bel Nemeqi: Divine-Human Communication in the Babylonian Poem of the Righteous Sufferer" - Alan Lenzi, University of the Pacific; "(Intuitive) Divination, (Ethical) Demands and Diplomacy in the Ancient Near East" - Jonathan Stokl, University College London; "(Technical) Divination and Divine-Human Communication" (title tbc) - Nils Peter Heesel, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg; "Samaritan inscriptions as votive depositories" - Anne Katrine Gudme, University of Copenhagen.

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