Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement / / ed. by James B. Pritchard.
This anthology brought together the most important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient Near East, with the purpose of providing a rich contextual base for understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old Testament. A scholar of religious thought...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©1955 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies on the Near East
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (744 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Introduction. To the Third Edition
- I. Myths, Epics, and Legends
- Egyptian Myths, Tales, and Mortuary Texts
- Sumerian Myths and Epic Tales
- Akkadian Myths and Epics
- Hittite Myths, Epics, and Legends
- Ugaritic Myths, Epics, and Legends
- II. Legal Texts
- Collections of Laws from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor
- Egyptian and Hittite Treaties
- Hittite Instructions
- Documents from the Practice of Law
- III. Historical Texts
- Egyptian Historical Texts
- Babylonian and Assyrian Historical Texts
- Hittite Historical Texts
- Palestinian Inscriptions
- IV. Rituals, Incantations, and Descriptions o f Festivals
- Egyptian Rituals and Incantations
- Akkadian Rituals
- Hittite Rituals, Incantations, and Description of Festivals
- V. Hymns and Prayers
- Egyptian Hymns and Prayers
- Sumerian Petition
- Sumero-Akkadian Hymns and Prayers
- Hittite Prayers
- VI. Didactic and Wisdom Literature
- Fables and Didactic Tales
- Proverbs and Precepts
- Observations on Life and the World Order
- Oracles and Prophecies
- VII. Lamentations
- A Sumerian Lamentation
- VIII. Secular Songs and Poems
- Egyptian Secular Songs and Poems
- IX. Letters
- An Egyptian Letter
- A Sumerian Letter
- Akkadian Letters
- Aramaic Letters
- X. Miscellaneous Texts
- Egyptian Texts
- Hittite Omen
- SUPPLEMENT TO Ancient Near Eastern Texts
- Akkadian Myths and Epics
- Hittite Myths, Epics, and Legends
- II. Legal Texts
- Collections of Laws from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor
- Egyptian and Hittite Treaties
- Akkadian Treaties from Syria and Assyria
- Documents from the Practice of Law
- Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine
- III. Historical Texts
- Egyptian Historical Texts
- Babylonian and Assyrian Historical Texts
- Palestinian Inscriptions
- V. Hymns and Prayers
- Sumerian Hymns
- V I . Didactic and Wisdom Literature
- Sumerian Wisdom Text
- Akkadian Didactic and Wisdom Literature
- VII. Lamentations
- Sumerian Lamentation
- IX . Letters
- Akkadian Letters
- Aramaic Letters
- X. Miscellaneous Texts
- Sumerian Sacred Marriage Texts
- Sumerian Miscellaneous Texts
- Canaanite and Aramaic Inscriptions
- South-Arabian Inscriptions
- Addenda
- Abbreviations
- Indexes
- Index of Biblical References
- Index of Names
- Addenda
- SUPPLEMENT TO Ancient Near Eastern Texts
- Translators and Annotators
- Contents of the Supplement