RT Book T1 Prophets and prophecy in the ancient Near East T2 Writings from the ancient world JF Writings from the ancient world A1 Nissinen, Martti 1959- LA English PP Atlanta PB SBL Press YR 2019 ED Second edition UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1678166650 AB 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. AB 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 NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 283-328 und Indexe CN BF1762 SN 9781628372281 SN 1628372281 SN 9780884143406 SN 0884143406 K1 Prophets : Middle East : History K1 Prophecy : History K1 Middle Eastern literature K1 Bibel K1 Prophecy K1 Prophets K1 Prophetie K1 Middle East K1 History