Prophets and prophecy in the ancient near east.

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 translation...

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Main Author: NISSINEN, MARTTI
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
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Published: [Place of publication not identified] SBL, 2018
Series:Writings from the ancient world ; no. 41.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-328) and indexes.
ISBN:9780884143413
0884143414
Language:Texts in transliteration with parallel English translations.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.