The Old Testament in Its World: Papers Read at the Winter Meeting, January 2003 - The Society for Old Testament Study and at the Joint Meeting, July ... Studiën, Old Testament Studies, 52)

Thông tin sách: The Old Testament in Its World: Papers Read at the Winter Meeting, January 2003 - The Society for Old Testament Study and at the Joint Meeting, July ... Studiën, Old Testament Studies, 52) (Leather Bound, 294 trang) – Brill, 2004. Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh.

Discoveries in sites revealing the ancient cultures of the Near East and Greece have contributed much to a better understanding of the Old Testament. As new finds constantly add new information, this precious evidence has to be (re)evaluated time and again. In this volume members of the Society for Old Testament Study in the United Kingdom and Ireland as well as members of the `Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap' in the Netherlands and Belgium join forces to undertake this demanding task. Egyptian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Neo-Hittite, Aramaic and Greek texts are inspected in order to establish whether or not they are relevant to the understanding of the Hebrew Bible. Editorial Reviews Review 'This book should be in every serious library of biblical studies…'
Mark W. Hamilton, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2005. About the Author Robert P. Gordon, Ph.D. (1973) in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge, 1971 is Regius Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge.
Johannes de Moor, Ph.D. (1971) Free University, Amsterdam, is Professor Emeritus of Semitic languages, Kampen.