Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East
Prophecy was a widespread phenomenon, not only in ancient Israel but in the ancient Near East as a whole. This is the first book to gather the available ancient Near Eastern, extrabiblical sources containing prophetic words or references to prophetic activities. Among the 140 texts included in this volume are oracles of prophets, personal letters, formal inscriptions, and administrative documents from ancient Mesopotamia and Levant from the second and first millennia BCE. Most of the texts...
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This volume gathers all available ancient Near Eastern extrabiblical sources containing prophetic words or references to prophetic activities, including prophetic oracles, letters, inscriptions, and administrative documents from ancient Mesopotamia and Levant, in contemporary English, with transcriptions of the original languages.Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
Series Editor's ForewordAbbreviationsExplanation of SignsChronological TablesMapsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1IMari Letters13IIOther Documents from Mari79IIIEsnunna Oracles93IVNineveh Oracles97VOther Neo-Assyrian Documents133VIMiscellaneous Cuneiform Sources179VIIWest Semitic Sources201VIIIReport of Wenamon219Concordances221Bibliography223Glossary261Indexes269
