Hidden riches : a sourcebook for the comparative study of the Hebrew bible and Ancient Near East

Hidden riches : a sourcebook for the comparative study of the Hebrew bible and Ancient Near East / Christopher B. Hays.

"This study considers the historical, cultural, and literary significance of some of the most important Ancient Near East (ANE) texts that illuminate the Hebrew Bible. Christopher B. Hays provides primary texts from the Ancient Near East with a comparison to literature of the Hebrew Bible to de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hays, Christopher B., 1973- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Louisville, Kentucky : Westminster John Knox Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Bible. > Old Testament > Comparative studies.
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Old Testament > Extra-canonical parallels.
Bible. > Old Testament
Middle Eastern literature > Relation to the Old Testament.
RELIGION > Biblical Studies > Old Testament.
RELIGION > Judaism > Sacred Writings.
Extra-canonical parallels
Middle Eastern literature > Relation to the Old Testament
Comparative studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Prolegomena. History and Methods of Comparative Study
  • II. Pentateuch. Creation Accounts
  • Flood Stories
  • Court Stories
  • Birth Accounts
  • Law Collections
  • Ritual Texts
  • Treaty, Oath, and Covenant
  • III. Former Prophets. The Divine in History
  • Temple-Building Accounts
  • Annual Chronicles
  • Comparative Historiography
  • IV. Latter Prophets. Prophetic Symbolic Acts
  • Oracles of Well-Being
  • Oracles Against the Nations
  • Compilation of Prophetic Texts
  • Divine Abandonment
  • Praise and Polemics for Baal
  • V. Writings. Proverbs and Wisdom Instructions
  • Responses to Human Suffering
  • Prayers Regarding Wrongdoing
  • Hymns of Praise with Solar Imagery
  • Prayers of Lament
  • City Laments
  • Persian Edicts
  • Autobiographies.

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