Prophets and prophecy in the ancient Near East / by Martti Nissinen ; with contributions by C.L. Seow, Robert K. Ritner, and H. Craig Melchert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nissinen, Martti, author.

Contributor:

Seow, C. L. (Choon-Leong), writer of supplementary textual content.

Ritner, Robert Kriech, 1953- writer of supplementary textual content.

Melchert, H. Craig (Harold Craig), 1945- writer of supplementary textual content.

Series:

Writings from the ancient world ; no. 41.

Writings from the ancient world ; no. 41

Language:

English

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Prophets--Middle East--History.

Prophets.

Prophecy--History.

Prophecy.

Middle Eastern literature.

History.

Middle East.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 343 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, Georgia : SBL Press, [2019]

Language Note:

Texts in transliteration with parallel English translations.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Mari letters

Other documents from Mari

Texts from Ešnunna

Ninevah Oracles

Other neo-Assyrian documents

Miscellaneous cuneiform sources

West Semitic sources / edited and introduced by C.L. Seow

Report of Wenamon / edited and introduced by Robert K. Ritner

Luwian Stela / edited and introduced by H. Craig Melchert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-328) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781628372281

1628372281

9780884143406

0884143406

OCLC:

1110014358