List Books » Old Testament Parallels (New Revised and Expanded Third Edition): Laws and Stories from the Ancient near East
Authors: Victor Harold Matthews
ISBN-13: 9780809144358, ISBN-10: 0809144352
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Paulist Press
Date Published: January 2007
Edition: REV
"Old Testament Parallels offers teachers and students a readable, affordable, and portable anthology of ancient Near Eastern texts related to the Bible that are dynamically equivalent in the way in which they were heard, and felt, and understood in their own worlds. The third edition reflects ongoing work and new discoveries, expands many of the existing parallels, adds new parallels, and enlarges the anthology to sixty-three selections." This fully revised edition includes: parallels arranged by the canonical order of the Old Testament and outlined chronologically within each chapter; introductions describing the physical appearance of each text, its language, where it was recovered, where it is preserved today, and a summary of its contents; a subject index of personal names, place-names, and general topics; a selective bibliography; and an outline of the history of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Israel.
Foreword | ||
Genesis | ||
Hymn to Ptah | 3 | |
Hymn to Ra | 6 | |
Enuma Elish Stories | 9 | |
Stories of Gilgamesh | 19 | |
Stories of Atrahasis | 31 | |
Stories of Adapa | 41 | |
Nuzi Archives | 46 | |
Annals of Hatshepsut | 52 | |
Annals of Dedumoses | 58 | |
Stories of Anubis and Bata | 61 | |
Stories of Aqhat | 66 | |
Stories of Keret | 76 | |
Exodus | ||
Annals of Sargon I | 85 | |
Treaty Between Ramses II and Hattusilis III | 86 | |
Annals of Merneptah | 91 | |
Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy | ||
Code of Ur-Nammu | 97 | |
Sumerian Code | 99 | |
Code of Hammurabi | 101 | |
Hittite Code | 110 | |
Middle Assyrian Code | 114 | |
Stories of Balaam | 124 | |
Joshua, Judges | ||
Stories of Sinuhe | 129 | |
Annals of Tuthmoses III | 134 | |
El Amarna Letters | 137 | |
Annals of Ramses III | 141 | |
Gezer Almanac | 145 | |
Ruth | ||
Archives of Babatha | 149 | |
Samuel, Kings | ||
Annals of Tiglath-Pileser I | 155 | |
Annals of Mesha | 157 | |
Tell Dan Annals of Hazael | 160 | |
Karatepe Annals of Azitiwada | 162 | |
Annals of Shalmaneser III | 166 | |
Annals of Tiglath-Pileser III | 172 | |
Annals of Sargon II | 174 | |
Annals of Sennacherib | 177 | |
Siloam Annals | 180 | |
Annals of Nebuchadnezzar | 182 | |
Arad Letters | 185 | |
Lachish Letters | 188 | |
Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah | ||
Decree of Cyrus | 193 | |
Elephantine Letters | 196 | |
Job, Ecclesiastes | ||
Declarations of Innocence | 203 | |
A Sufferer and a Soul in Egypt | 208 | |
A Farmer and the Courts in Egypt | 215 | |
A Sufferer and a Friend in Babylon | 223 | |
Psalms, Lamentations | ||
Laments for Ur | 231 | |
Hymn to Ninkasi | 238 | |
Ebla Archives | 240 | |
Stories of Ba'al and Anat | 244 | |
Hymn to the Aton | 257 | |
Proverbs, Sirach, Wisdom | ||
Teachings of Ptah-Hotep | 265 | |
Teachings of Khety | 270 | |
Teachings of Amen-em-ope | 274 | |
Teachings of Ahiqar | 283 | |
Teachings of Ankhsheshonqy | 289 | |
Song of Songs | ||
Egyptian Love Songs | 297 | |
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Amos | ||
Stories of Ishtar and Tammuz | 305 | |
Visions of Neferti | 312 | |
Mari Letters | 318 | |
Stories of Wen-Amon | 323 | |
Yavne-Yam Letter | 331 | |
Outline of Mesopotamian History | 333 | |
Outline of Egyptian History from 3100-332 BCE | 335 | |
Outline of Israelite History | 336 | |
Bibliography of Texts in Transcription, Transliteration, and Translation | 388 | |
Bibliography of Picture Sources | 350 | |
Abbreviations | 352 | |
Index | 355 |