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James Pritchard's classic anthologies of the ancient Near East have
introduced generations of readers to texts essential for
understanding the peoples and cultures of this important region.
Now these two enduring works have been combined and integrated into
one convenient and richly illustrated volume, with a new foreword
that puts the translations in context. With more than 130 reading
selections and 300 photographs of ancient art, architecture, and
artifacts, this volume provides a stimulating introduction to some
of the most significant and widely studied texts of the ancient
Near East, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Creation Epic
(Enuma elish), the Code of Hammurabi, and the Baal Cycle. For
students of history, religion, the Bible, archaeology, and
anthropology, this anthology provides a wealth of material for
understanding the ancient Near East. * Represents the diverse
cultures and languages of the ancient Near East--Sumerian,
Akkadian, Egyptian, Hittite, Ugaritic, Canaanite, and Aramaic--in a
wide range of genres: * Historical texts * Legal texts and treaties
* Inscriptions * Hymns * Didactic and wisdom literature * Oracles
and prophecies * Love poetry and other literary texts * Letters *
New foreword puts the classic translations in context * More than
300 photographs document ancient art, architecture, and artifacts
related to the texts * Fully indexed
This anthology brought together the most important historical,
legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient
Near East, with the purpose of providing a rich contextual base for
understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old
Testament. A scholar of religious thought and biblical archaeology,
James Pritchard recruited the foremost linguists, historians, and
archaeologists to select and translate the texts. The goal, in his
words, was "a better understanding of the likenesses and
differences which existed between Israel and the surrounding
cultures." Before the publication of these volumes, students of the
Old Testament found themselves having to search out scattered books
and journals in various languages. This anthology brought these
invaluable documents together, in one place and in one language,
thereby expanding the meaning and significance of the Bible for
generations of students and readers. As one reviewer put it, "This
great volume is one of the most notable to have appeared in the
field of Old Testament scholarship this century."
Princeton published a follow-up companion volume, "The Ancient
Near East in Pictures Relating to the Old Testament" (1954), and
later a one-volume abridgment of the two, "The Ancient Near East:
An Anthology of Texts and Pictures" (1958). The continued
popularity of this work in its various forms demonstrates that
anthologies have a very important role to play in education--and in
the mission of a university press.
This is a new release of the original 1958 edition.
Contributing Authors Include John Clark Archer, Samuel D. Atkins,
Ludwig Bachhofer And Others.
Contributing Authors Include Paul K. Benedict, Nicholas C. Bodman,
Oscar Broneer, And Others.
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