Umfang:
xxviii, 343 Seiten :
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Karten ;
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24 cm.
Ausgabe:
Second edition
ISBN:
978-1-62837-228-1
Serie:
Writings from the ancient world no. 41
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
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
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Texts in transliteration with parallel English translations
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Prophetie
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Bibel Altes Testament
;
Prophetie
;
Quelle
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History
Mehr zum Autor:
Seow, C. L., 1952-
Mehr zum Autor:
Nissinen, Martti, 1959-,
Mehr zum Autor:
Melchert, Harold Craig, 1945-
