"I Studied Inscriptions from Before the Flood": Ancient Near Eastern, Literary, and Linguistic Approaches to Genesis 1-11

by Richard S. Hess

Other authorsDavid Toshio Tsumura (Editor)

Book, 1994

Status

Available

Call number

222.1106

Genres

Classics

Religion & Spirituality

History

Nonfiction

Publication

Eisenbrauns (1994), 480 pages. Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, Vol. 4

Description

This volume collects the best of recent research and classic essays on the Primeval History, including several articles that have not appeared heretofore in English. The articles provide students and scholars with easy access to significant scholarship illuminating both the world outside the text and the world within the text.

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A collection of the most influential scholastic essays on Genesis 1-11 in its Ancient Near Eastern context in the last century. Many of the papers herein have been translated into English for the first time. Some of the brilliant authors include W.G. Lambert, E.A. Speiser, D.J. Wiseman, Samuel Noah

Kramer, Gordan Wenham, and D.J.A. Clines.

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