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 come from Mari (eighteenth century BCE) and Assyria (seventh century BCE). In addition, the volume provides new translations of the relevant section of the Egyptian Report of Wenamon, by Robert K. Ritner, and of various texts from Syria-Palestine containing allusions to prophets and prophetic activities, by C. L. Seow. By collecting and presenting evidence of the activities of prophets and the phenomenon of prophecy from all over the ancient Near East, the volume illumines the cultural background of biblical prophecy and its parallels. It provides scholars of the history, religions, and cultural traditions of the ancient Near East with important information about different types and forms of transmission of divine words, and makes these valuable primary source materials accessible to students and general readers in contemporary English along with transcriptions of the original languages, indexes, and an extensive bibliography. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)
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Martti Nissinen, Ph.D. (1991), University of Helsinki, is Senior Researcher, Academy of Finland. He teaches Hebrew Bible at the University of Helsinki, publishes and lectures extensively on prophecy in the ancient Near East, and is one of the translators of the New Finnish Bible (1992).
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This is a handy little guide to have for ANE prophecy. If you are a student of the biblical prophets, this is a handy little guide if you want to compare biblical prophets to those in the ANE. Most of the book is comprised of the prophets from Mari and Ashurbanipal's library (including prophecies for Esarhaddon). There are also a few West Semitic prophecies.
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- Tammuz and Ishtar by Stephen Langdon in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature by Dr Gwendolyn Leick in Back Matter
- Stories in Scripture and Inscriptions: Comparative Studies on Narratives in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions and the Hebrew Bible by Simon Parker in Back Matter
- The Interpretation of Dreams in the Ancient Near East (Ancient Mesopotamian Texts and Studies) by Leo Oppenheim in Back Matter
- Mari and the Early Israelite Experience (Schweich Lectures on Biblical Archaeology) by Abraham Malamat in Back Matter
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- Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible by John H. Walton on 5 pages
- The Exile and the Prophet's Wife: Historic Events and Marginal Perspectives (Interfaces) by Johanna Stiebert on page 55, and Back Matter
- Hosea (Forms of the Old Testament Literature) by Ehud Ben Zvi on page 61
- Who Were the Babylonians? (Archaeology and Biblical Studies) (Sbl - Archaeology and Biblical Studies) by Bill T. Arnold in Back Matter
- Ancient Israel: The Old Testament In Its Social Context by Philip Francis Esler in Back Matter
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