The Context of Scripture, Volume 3 Archival Documents from the Biblical World - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004106200 ISBN 13: 9789004106208

Verlag: Brill Verlag, 2002

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'This is a wonderful volume...The volume is an invaluable reference work for all libraries where biblical studies and/or ancient Near Eastern history is taught. It is highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate libraries.' Andrew G. Vaughn, Religious Studies Review, 2003.

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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. Translations of recently discovered texts are included, alongside new translations of better-known texts and in some cases the best existing translations of such texts. The substantial three-volume work, with its specially designed page layout and large format, features full cross-referencing to comparable Bible passages, and new, up-to-date bibliographical annotations with judicious commentary. Its many distinct advantages over other collections will ensure the place of The Context of Scripture as a standard reference work for the 21st century. Volume 3, Archival Documents from the Biblical World, provides a generous selection from the vast number of legal, commercial and private documents preserved from pre-classical antiquity. These courtcases, contracts, accounts and letters, so often slighted or underrepresented in older anthologies, throw a bright light on the daily life of ordinary human beings as recorded by their contemporaries. In addition, exhaustive indices to all three volumes identify and classify all proper names and many of the themes struck throughout the work. With this third Volume The Context of Scripture is completed.

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• Verlag: Brill Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9004106200
• ISBN 13: 9789004106208
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 406
• Herausgeber: Hallo William W., Younger