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: 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)

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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: 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.