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The Influence of 1 Enoch on the New Testament
Explore how 1 Enoch likely shaped the language, imagery, and theology of the New Testament, from the Gospels' Son of Man to Revelation's final judgmen...
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...
Paul the Rabbi
Explore how Paul's methods of reading scripture, reasoning, arguing, and telling stories anticipate the techniques later expanded and codified in rabb...
The Solar and Lunar Calendar Debate
Explore how communities debated whether the sun or the moon should govern the festival year, from the solar calendar of 1 Enoch and Jubilees through t...
King Josiah at the Center of Israel's History
Explore how Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings use distinct Deuteronomic language and literary structure that converges on Josiah's reform, suggesting...
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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Atonement and Purification: Priestly and Assyro-Babylonian Perspectives on Sin and Its Consequences
Cranz, Isabel • Mohr Siebeck • 2017
Babylonian Prayers to Marduk
Oshima, Takayoshi • Mohr Siebeck • 2011
Babylonian Wisdom Literature
Lambert, W. G. • Eisenbrauns • 1996
Creation in Collision? Isaiah 40-48 and Zoroastrianism, Babylonian Religion and Genesis 1
Nilsen, Tina Dykesteen • Journal of Hebrew Scriptures Vol. 13, No. 8 • 2013
"Political and Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis 14 and in Its Babylonian Sources" in Altmann, Alexander (ed.) Biblical Motifs: Origins and Transformations
Astour, Michael C. • Harvard University Press • 1966
Primeval History: Babylonian, Biblical, and Enochic: An Intertextual Reading
Kvanvig, Helge S. • Brill • 2011
Structure and Form in the Babylonian Talmud
Jacobs, Louis • Cambridge University Press • 1991
The Book of Lamentations and the Social World of Judah in the Neo-Babylonian Era
Wilkins, Lauress L. • Gorgias Press • 2010
The Heavenly Counterparts of Adapa and Enoch in Babylonia and Israel
Annus, Amar • Brill • 2019
The Origin of the Ashmedai Legend in the Babylonian Talmud
Kaminka, Armand • The Jewish Quarterly Review • 1922
The Responsive Self: Personal Religion in Biblical Literature of the Neo-Babylonian and Persian Periods
Niditch, Susan • Yale University Press • 2015
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