"The Context of Scripture" presents the multi-faceted world of ancient writing that forms the background to the literature of the Hebrew Bible. Designed as a reference work for all engaged in the study of the Bible and the Ancient Near East, and involving many of the world scholars in the field, it provides access to a broad, balanced and representative collection of Ancient Near Eastern texts that have some bearing on the the interpretation of the Bible. Translations of recently discovered texts are included, alongside new translations of better-known texts. The three-volume work, with its specially designed page layout and large format, features full cross-referencing to comparable Bible passages, and up-to-date bibliographical annotations with commentary. Volume 3 of the work provides a selection from the vast number of legal, commercial and private documents preserved from pre-classical antiquity. These court cases, contracts, accounts and letters, so often slighted or under-represented in older anthologies, throw a light on the daily life of ordinary human beings as recorded by their contemporaries. In addition there are exhaustive indexes to all three volumes, which identify and classify all proper names and many of the themes struck throughout the work. With this third volume, "The Context of Scripture" is completed.
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William W. Hallo is the William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and Curator of the Babylonian Collection at Yale University. He holds degrees from Harvard, Leiden, and Chicago. He is author or co-author of Seals and Seal Impressions (2001), The Ancient Near East: a History (1998, 1971), Origins (1997), The Book of the People (1991), Scripture in Context (4 vols. 1980-1991), Heritage: Civilization and the Jews (2 vols. 1984), The Tablets of Ebla (1984), Sumerian Archival Texts (1973), The Exaltation of Inanna (1968), and Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles (1957).
K. Lawson Younger, Jr., Ph.D. (1988) at the University of Sheffield is Professor of Old Testament, Semitic Languages and Ancient Near Eastern History at Trinity International University -- Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. He is the author of Ancient Near Eastern Conquest Accounts: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical History Writing (1990), co-editor of Mesopotamia and the Bible (2002), as well as numerous scholarly articles and reviews.
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