"This anthology includes abridged material originally published in Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament ... and The Ancient Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament."

Includes index.

Akkadian myths and epics: Creation epic ; Nergal and Ereshkigal ; The myth of Zu ; A Babylonian theogony / A.K. Grayson -- Hittite myth: El, Ashertu and the Storm-god / Albrecht Goetze -- Laws from Mesopotamia: Laws of Ur-Nammu ; Sumerian laws ; Edict of Ammisaduqa / J.J. Finkelstein -- Treaties: Hittite treaty / Albrecht Goetze; Akkadian treaties from Syria and Assyria ; Treaty between Niqmepa of Alalakh and Ir-IM of Tunip; Treaty between Idrimi and Pilliya; Treaty between Ashurnirari V of Assyria and Mati'ilu of Arpad; Treaty of Esarhaddon with Baal of Tyre; Vassal-treaties of Esarhaddon / Albrecht Goetze -- Documents from the practice of law: Mesopotamian legal documents / J.J. Finkelstein; Aramaic papyri from Elephantine / H.L. Ginsberg -- Egyptian Historical texts: Asiatics in Egyptian household service ; The war against the Hyksos / John A. Wilson -- Babylonian and Assyrian historical texts: Dedication of the Shamash Temple by Yahdun-Lim ; Story of Idrimi, King of Alalakh ; Banquet of Ashurnasirpal II ; Mother of Nabonidus ; Nabonidus and his god ; Conquest of Jerusalem ; Assyrian king list ; Uruk king list from Kandalanu to Seleucus II ; Seleucid king list / A. Leo Oppenheim -- Palestinian inscriptions: Letter from the time of Josiah ; Three ostraca from Arad / W.F. Albright -- Sumerian Hymns: Hymn to Ninurta as god of vegetation ; Hymn to Ninurta as a god of wrath ; Hymnal prayer of Enheduanna: the adoration of Inanna of Ur ; The king of the road: a self-laudatory Shulgi hymn / S.N. Kramer -- Sumerian wisdom text: Man and his god, a Sumerian variation of the "Job" motif / S.N. Kramer -- Akkadian didactic and wisdom literature: Akkadian fable ; Counsels of wisdom ; "I will praise the lord of wisdom" Ludlul Bel Nemeqi; Babylonian theodicy / Robert D. Biggs -- Akkadian oracles and prophecies: Oracles concerning Esarhaddon ; A letter to Ashurbanipal ; Oracular dream concerning Ashurbanipal prophecies / Robert D. Biggs -- Akkadian letters: Divine revelations ; The substitute king ; A happy reign ; A royal decree of equity ; A letter to a god ; Punishment by fire ; Treaties and coalitions ; "The God of my father" ; A loan between gentlemen : A boy to his mother / William L. Moran -- Aramaic letter: Assignment to a new Lessor of land abandoned in the Egyptian Rebellion of 410 B.C. / H.L. Ginsberg -- Miscellaneouos Sumerian texts: Dumuzi and Inanna, love in the Gipar ; Dumuzi and Inanna: the ecstasy of love ; Inanna and the king: blessing on the wedding night ; "The honey-man": love-song to a king ; "Set me free, my sister": the sated lover ; The curse of Agade: the Ekur avenged ; Ua-aua: a Sumerian lullaby / S.N. Kramer -- Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions: King of Kedar ; Punic ex-voto inscriptions ; The amulet from Arslan Tash ; The Uruk incantation ; The treaty between KTK and Arpad ; Ahiram of Byblos ; Agbar, priest of the moon-god in Nerab ; Tabnit of Sidon ; Eshmun'azar of Sidon / Franz Rosenthal -- South-Arabian inscriptions: Sabaean inscriptions ; Minaean inscriptions ; Qatabanian inscriptions ; Hadrami inscriptions / A. Jamme.