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Nissinen, Martti, 1959-

Prophets and prophecy in the ancient Near East / by Martti Nissinen ; with contributions by C.L. Seow, Robert K. Ritner, and H. Craig Melchert. - Second edition. - 1 online resource - Writings from the ancient world ; number 41 . - Writings from the ancient world ; no. 41. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Abbreviations; Explanation of Signs; Chronological Tables; Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Mari Letters; Other Documents from Mari; Texts from Ešnunna; Nineveh Oracles; Other Neo-Assyrian Documents; Miscellaneous Cuneiform Sources; West Semitic Sources; Report of Wenamon; Luwian Stela; Concordances; Bibliography; Glossary; Indexes

"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"--

ISBN: 0884143414 9780884143413

Source: 22573/ctvkwp10p JSTOR

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Prophets--History.--Middle East
Prophecy--History.
Prophecy--Comparative studies--Congresses.
Prophétie--Histoire.
Prophétie--Études comparatives--Congrès.
RELIGION--Ancient.
Prophecy
Prophets
Religion

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Middle East--Literatures.
Middle East--Religion--Congresses.
Middle East

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Literatures

LC Class. No.: BF1762 / .N58 2019 BL633 / .P75 2019eb

Dewey Class. No.: 133.309394 291.2/117