Ebook Info
- Published: 2019
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- Format: PDF
- File Size: 1.16 MB
- Authors: Martti Nissinen
Description
A new, expanded edition of a classic reference toolThis 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 translationsThirty-four new translationsContributions of West Semitic, Egyptian, and Luwian sources from C. L. Seow, Robert K. Ritner, and H. Craig MelchertMartti Nissinen is Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology. His books include Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives (2017), Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East (2003), Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective (1998), and References to Prophecy in Neo-Assyrian Sources (1998).
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⭐This book is an amazing collection of ancient near eastern prophecies and oracles that have been recovered from rock/wall inscriptions, clay tablets and papyri. It provides great context on prophecies that are found in the Bible.
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