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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.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Writings from the ancient world ; no. 41.Publisher: Atlanta : SBL Press, [2019]Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0884143414
  • 9780884143413
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East.DDC classification:
  • 133.309394 23
  • 291.2/117 23
LOC classification:
  • BF1762 .N58 2019
  • BL633 .P75 2019eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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
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.

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

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 14, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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.