Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East, Second edition (Writings from the Ancient World) by Martti Nissinen
English | January 14, 2019 | ISBN: 0884143406, 1628372281 | 372 pages | PDF | 4,5 MB
English | January 14, 2019 | ISBN: 0884143406, 1628372281 | 372 pages | PDF | 4,5 MB
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 Craig Melchert
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