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Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume provides a thoughtful introduction to the literature of the ancient Near East and a well-considered apology for its importance to exegetical work. John Walton suggests that there are three important roles comparative studies can play in biblical interpretation: critical analysis, defense of the biblical text, and exegesis. He focuses particularly on the third aspect and its importance...

Besides the cosmological texts such as Enuma Elish, where Marduk organizes the universe, then has a shrine constructed, Mesopotamian temple building texts contribute to this association.45 If it is accurate to consider the temple and cosmos to be closely related, indeed, to be reflections of one another, then it would naturally follow that cosmology texts should have a lot in common with temple construction texts. “We should not be surprised to find that the texts describing the creation of the world
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