Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East

by Martti Nissinen

Book Overview

This volume brings together a representative sample of ancient Near Eastern written documents of prophecy from the second and first millennia BCE and provides nonspecialist readers translations, transliterations, and discussions of oracle 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884143406
• ISBN13: 9780884143406
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: SBL Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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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.