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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.
- Series:
- Writings from the ancient world ; Volume 41.
- Writings from the ancient world ; Volume 41
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prophets--Middle East--History.
- Prophets.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 pages).
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Atlanta, Georgia : SBL Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This volume brings together a representative sample of ancient Near Eastern written documents of prophecy from the second and first millennia BCE and provides nonspecialist readers translations, transliterations, and discussions of oracle 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-88414-341-4
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