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The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Collected Essays

Book information

Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
9781575065359
DOI
10.1515/9781575065359
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1598770 bytes)
Pages
440\356
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 20:42:20

Description

Presented in this volume is a collection of the shorter writings of one of the more innovative scholars working on the relationship between the writings of the Hebrew Bible and its ancient Near East context. Topics include: ANE environment, literature of the ANE, myth versus history, Nebuchadnezzar I’s Elamite crisis, Job and the Israelite religious tradition, motif of the weeping God in Jeremiah, lament tradition in ANE, the hand of Yahweh, and whether God lies.

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