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Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East

by Martti Nissinen

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"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"--

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Martti Nissinen

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Languages: English
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Published: 2003
Genres: Nonfiction, History, Religion & Spirituality
DDC/MDS: 133.309394
LCC: BF1762 .N58

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