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Fictional Akkadian Autobiography
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Tremper Longman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Eisenbrauns

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That autobiography in ancient literature is fictional has long been recognized. The purpose of Longman's study is to delineate the genre of fictional autobiogra
Ecclesiastes
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Craig G. Bartholomew
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06 - Publisher: Baker Academic

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A world-renowned Old Testament scholar provides a careful exegetical reading of Ecclesiastes with theological insights for serious students of the Bible.
“Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela”
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Robert P. Gordon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-19 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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Thus Speaks Ishtar is a collection of essays about prophets and prophecy in the ancient Near East during the “Neo-Assyrian Period.” This was the time when s
The Words of the Wise Are like Goads
Language: en
Pages: 528
Authors: Mark J. Boda
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-12 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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“Meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless.” The word “meaningless” (hebel) appears more than 40 times in the book of Ecclesiastes and raises
Predicting the Past in the Ancient Near East
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Matthew Neujahr
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-06 - Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

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This work provides an in-depth investigation of after-the-fact predictions in ancient Near Eastern texts from roughly 1200 B.C.E.–70 C.E. It argues that the A