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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Prophecy was a widespread phenomenon, not only in ancient Israel but in the ancient Near East as a whole. This is the first book to gather the available ancient Near Eastern, extrabiblical sources containing prophetic words or references to prophetic activities. Among the 140... Read Full Overview