relating to the Old Testament /  Pritchard, James B. text xx Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press 1955 9999 monographic und eng

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xxi, 544 p. ; 29 cm. Egyptian myths, tales, and mortuary texts -- Sumerian myths and epic tales -- Akkadian myths and epics -- Hittite myths, epics, and legends -- Ugaritic myths, epics, and legends -- Collections of laws from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor -- Egyptian and Hittite treaties -- Akkadian treaties from Syria and Assyria -- Hittite instructions -- Documents from the practice of law -- Egyptian historical texts -- Babylonian and Assyrian historical texts -- Hittite historical texts -- Palestinian inscriptions -- Egyptian rituals and incantations -- Akkadian rituals -- Hittite rituals, incantations, and description of festivals -- Egyptian hymns and prayers -- Sumerian petition -- Sumero-Akkadian hymns and prayers -- Sumerian hymns -- Hittite prayers -- Fables and didactic tales -- Proverbs and precepts -- Observations on life and the world order -- Oracles and prophecies -- Sumerian lamentations -- Egyptian secular songs and poems -- An Egyptian letter -- A Sumerian letter -- Akkadian letters -- Aramaic letters -- Egyptian texts -- Sumerian sacred marriage texts -- Sumerian miscellaneous texts -- Sumerian love song -- Hittite omen -- Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions -- South-Arabian inscriptions. edited by James B. Pritchard Bible. Old Testament History of contemporary events.Middle Eastern literature Translations into English BS1180 .P83 1955 220820