Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East (Writings from the Ancient World) - Softcover

Martti Nissinen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628372281 ISBN 13: 9781628372281

Publisher: SBL Press, 2019

Synopsis

A new, expanded edition of a classic reference tool

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.

Features:

• Modern, idiomatic, and readable English translations
• Thirty-four new translations
• Contributions of West Semitic, Egyptian, and Luwian sources from C.-L. Seow, Robert K. Ritner, and Craig Melchert

About this title

About the Author

Martti Nissinen is Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Theology. His books include Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives (2017), Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East (2003), Homoeroticism in the Biblical World: A Historical Perspective (1998), and References to Prophecy in Neo-Assyrian Sources (1998).

Edition details

• Publisher: SBL Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1628372281
• ISBN 13: 9781628372281
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 350