Citations:manticism

English citations of manticism and manticisms

• 1861, Alexander McCaul, “Prophecy”, essay iii in Aids to Faith, ed. William Thomson, § 1, page 81:

  It is useless, therefore, to go to the manticism of the heathen to get light as to the nature of Hebrew prophecy.

• 1867 April, Henry Bannister, “Fairbairn on Prophecy”, article ii in The Methodist Quarterly Review XLIX (fourth series, volume XIX): April №, ed. D.D. Whedon, page 186:

  And in this regard the oracles, the manticisms, and the pagan wisdom of all the heathen ages, stand nowhere in favorable comparison with it.

• 1869, George Western Thompson, Deus-Semper: The Norm + the Germ × the Conditions = the Fruit, discourse v: “The Personality of God: The Individuality of Man”, page 128:

  This isolation and irresolvable unity of the Self-consciousness will account for the return and presidency of the conscious Self in and over all the phenomena of the complex organization, and over the spontaneities, instincts, mesmerisms, and manticisms — so familiar to the old Greek mind.

• 1992, Philip R. Davies, In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’ (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 148), Sheffield: JSOT Press, ISSN 03090787, →ISBN, chapter 7: “How Was the Biblical Literature Written, and Why?”, page 125:

  Hence the name I suggest to the fifth scribal college is the school of politics. Perhaps this college also became interested in manticism and produced apocalypses – but this is a largely non-biblical matter and not to be raised here.