num_pages: 440
description: Presented in this volume is a collection of the shorter writings of one of the more innovative scholars working on the relationship between the writings of the Hebrew Bible and its ancient Near East context. Topics ANE environment, literature of the ANE, myth versus history, Nebuchadnezzar I’s Elamite crisis, Job and the Israelite religious tradition, motif of the weeping God in Jeremiah, lament tradition in ANE, the hand of Yahweh, and whether God lies.
language: English
title: The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Collected Essays
titlecomplete: The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Collected Essays
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Eisenbrauns