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Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Hebrew Bible represents no mere collection of books but a stunning array of literary genres. To fully illuminate the history and culture of the Old Testament, it is necessary to compare these ancient writings to similar texts written concurrently by Israel’s neighbors. Beginning with an overview of the important literary archives of the ancient Near East, Sparks provides exhaustive...

Because the visions in the book of Daniel represent the only full-scale apocalypses in the Hebrew Bible, our interpretation of these visionary genres depends profoundly on insights gained from comparative material. Generally speaking, this comparative material satisfies in varying degrees the definition of apocalypse adopted by scholars from the Society of Biblical Literature Genres Project: An apocalypse is a genre of revelatory literature
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