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Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (3rd Edition with Supplement) is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Ancient Near Eastern Texts brings together the most important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient Near East, with the purpose of providing a rich contextual base for understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old Testament. A scholar of religious thought and biblical archaeology, James Pritchard recruited the foremost linguists,...

the chief master-of-ceremonies,2 Nabuahusur, the chief of the engineers,3 Mushallim-Marduk, Nabu-ushibshi (and) Eribshu, the overseers (lit.: heads) of the slave-girls, Nabubelusur, overseer of the slave-girls, Nabuzeribni, the cupbearer, Nergalresua, the chief of the singers, Ardi-Nabu, the sipiru-official4 of the crown prince, Eaidanni, the chief of the cattle,5 Rimutu, the chief of the cattle, Nabumarsharriusur, the chief of the sailors, (and) Hanunu,6 the chief of the royal merchants; (and as)
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