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Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible (2nd Ed.) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Leading evangelical scholar John Walton surveys the cultural context of the ancient Near East, bringing insight to the interpretation of specific Old Testament passages. This new edition of a top-selling textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised throughout to reflect the refined thinking of a mature scholar. It includes over 30 illustrations. Students and pastors who want to deepen their...

fairly restrictive sense of ontology emerges the oxymoron of nonexistent entities.11 Prior to creation there was a unity expressed by the statement that there were “not yet two things.”12 The realm of the nonexistent remains not only at the boundaries but throughout the cosmos, and that realm can be encountered. The desert and the limitless waters are two examples.13 The gods exist on earth only through their functions. “On earth … the gods live only in images, in the king as an image of god, in
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