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Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East

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A new, expanded edition of a classic reference tool

This volume of more than 170 documents of prophecy from the ancient Near East brings together a representative sample of written documents from Mesopotamia, the Levant, and Egypt dating to the second and first millennia BCE. Nissinen's collection provides nonspecialist readers clear translations, transliterations, and discussions of oracles reports and collections, quotations of prophetic messages in letters and literature, and texts that reference persons with prophetic titles. This second edition includes thirty-four new texts.

Features:

  • Modern, idiomatic, and readable English translations
  • Thirty-four new translations
  • Contributions of West Semitic, Egyptian, and Luwian sources from C.-L. Seow, Robert K. Ritner, and Craig Melchert
Request Code : ZLIBIO3193412
Categories:
Year:
2019
Edition:
2
Publisher:
SBL Press
Language:
English
Pages:
350
ISBN 10:
1628372281
ISBN 13:
9781628372281
ISBN:
1628372281,9781628372281
Series:
Writings from the Ancient World

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