Product Description: The Context of Scripture, Volume IV Supplements offers important additions to the previously published three volumes of The Context of Scripture, a major tool for research in the Bible and the ancient Near East. It provides translations of recently discovered texts, alongside new translations of better-known texts, all of which illuminate the literary output found in the Hebrew Bible...read more

Product Description: This is a remarkable and important work that provides insight into social and economic activities provided to us in the cuneiform records of ancient periods revealing how these activities were negotiated and regulated by laws and contracts, through records of the Sumerian model contracts from the Mesopotamian scribal school curriculum...read more

Product Description: For 3000 years the Bedouin people have conveyed the wisdom of their culture from one generation to the next by means of spoken proverbs. This anthology presents 1,350 of these proverbs, almost none of which have been heard outside the Bedouin world before...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Context of Scripture illuminatingly presents the multi-faceted world of ancient writing that forms the colourful background to the literature of the Hebrew Bible. Designed as a thorough and durable reference work for all engaged in the study of the Bible and the Ancient Near East, and involving many of the world s outstanding scholars in the field, it provides reliable access to a broad, balanced and representative collection of Ancient Near Eastern texts that have some bearing on the interpretation of the Bible...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Presenting the multi-faceted world of ancient writing that forms the background to the Hebrew Bible, this series of three volumes is designed as a reference work for all engaged in the study of the Bible and the ancient Near East...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This textbook is a reliable resource with an outstanding reputation for research and scholarship. The authors are well known and the new edition features a substantial updating of the material. Ideal for undergraduate studies in ancient history and history of the near east, the book is also appropriate as a supplement for instructors teaching corresponding sections or chapters in World History or Western Civilization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The "first half of history" covers the interval between the invention of writing in Sumer and the floruit of classical Greece. During these two and a half millennia (ca. 3000-500 BCE), the Near East is the primary locus of written documentation, and thus the place where the emergence of humanity's achievements can be followed in detail...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of papers from the NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers which aim to compare biblical and Mesopotamian canons of literature. It includes indexes of subjects, biblical references and authors.

Product Description: Book by Hallo, William W.