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The Primordial History: Genesis 1–11 and the Ancient Near East
Explore key narratives in Genesis 1–11, from creation to Babel, compared with their Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Sumerian counterparts to reveal how Is...
Melammu: Divine Radiance in the Ancient Near East and Biblical Traditions
Explore how Melammu, the awe-inspiring radiance of gods and kings in ancient Mesopotamia, originated in the overwhelming brightness of the sun and sta...
Some Differences Between the Septuagint and Masoretic Traditions
Explore how the two most influential text traditions, the Septuagint and the Masoretic Text, each shaped, expanded, and condensed their inherited text...
Beauty and Divine Favor in the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible
Explore how ancient Near Eastern royal ideology connected physical beauty to divine election and how this influenced the Hebrew Bible. This concept is...
The Divine Council and the Development of Bureaucracy
Explore how the biblical divine council evolved from an informal council of gods into a structured divine administration, and how its evolution follow...
The World Tree in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Traditions
Explore how the image of a great tree at the center of the world was inherited from Mesopotamian myth into the Hebrew Bible and reshaped by later Jewi...
From the Tablet of Destinies to the Book of Life
Explore how the Mesopotamian idea of divine tablets that tracked everyone's destiny evolved through the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Jewish literature,...
Protecting Widows, Orphans, and the Poor
Explore how the social obligation to protect the most vulnerable members of society evolved from ancient Near Eastern culture into the Hebrew Bible, p...
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A Biblical Parallel to a Sumerian Temple Hymn? Ezekiel 40–48 and Gudea
Sharon, Diane M. • Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, Vol. 24, No. 1 • 1996
Ancient Near Eastern Literature and the Psalm of Habakkuk 3
Patty, Tyler J. • Trinity Evangelical Divinity School • 2015
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament
Pritchard, James B. • Princeton University Press • 2016
Birkat Shalom: Studies in the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism Presented to Shalom M. Paul
Milgrom, Jacob • Eisenbrauns • 2008
Birkat Shalom: Studies in the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism Presented to Shalom M. Paul on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday
Tov, Emanuel • Eisenbrauns • 2008
Birkat Shalom: Studies in the Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism Presented to Shalom M. Paul on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday
Yona, Shamir • Eisenbrauns • 2008
Heavenly Tablets and the Book of LIfe
Paul, Shalom M. • Journal of the Ancient Near Eastern Society, Vol. 5, Issue 1 • 1973
Origins: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions
Hallo, William W. • E.J. Brill • 1996
The Ger in Deuteronomy: Expanding Ancient Near Eastern Precedent for the Protection of Vulnerable Classes
Dunahoo, Josh • George Fox University • 2020
The Power of Images: The Poetics of Violence in Lamentations 2 and Ancient Near Eastern Art
Walker, Justin • Peeters • 2022
The Symbolism of the Biblical World: Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Book of Psalms
Keel, Othmar • Eisenbrauns • 1997
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