TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pritchard,James B.
TI  - The ancient Near East: a new anthology of texts and pictures 
SN  - 0691002096
PY  - 1975///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Old Testament
KW  - History of contemporary events
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Oriental literature
KW  - Translations into English
N1  - "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
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