Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East

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Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East
Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East
Author : Martti Nissinen
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Publisher : SBL Press
Language : English
Release Date : 09 July 2019
ISBN : 9780884143413
Pages : 372 pages
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Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East by Martti Nissinen Book PDF Summary

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 H. Craig Melchert

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