Prophets and prophecy in the ancient Near East
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 -- Luwia...
| Summary: | 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. 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 |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 283-328 und Indexe |
| ISBN: | 1628372281 |