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Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East (Writings from the Ancient World) (Writings from the Ancient World) (Writings from the Ancient World)
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Product Description
This is the first book to gather the available ancient Near Eastern extrabiblical sources containing prophetic words or references to prophetic activities. Among the 140 texts included in this volume are oracles of prophets, personal letters, formal inscriptions, and administrative documents from ancient Mesopotamia and Levant from the second and first millennia B.C.E. By collecting and presenting evidence of the activities of prophets and the phenomenon of prophecy from all over the ancient Near East, the volume illumines the cultural background of biblical prophecy and its parallels. It makes these valuable primary source materials accessible to students and general readers in contemporary English along with transcriptions of the original languages, indexes, and an extensive bibliography.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #513463 in Books
- Published on: 2003-09-01
- Released on: 2003-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 296 pages
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About the Author
Martti Nissinen is Senior Researcher at the Academy of Finland and teaches Hebrew Bible at the University of Helsinki. C. L. Seow is Henry Snyder Gehman Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. Robert K. Ritner is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
