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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,...

your body, so that you bathe in [your own blood] as if in water. 53. (464) May the Seven gods, the warrior gods, cause your downfall with their fierce weapons. 54. (466) May [ … ] hand you over to a man-eating lion. 55. (469) May Ishtar [of … ], Ishtar [ … of] Carche-mish put a severe … into your heart, so that your blood dribbles down to the ground like rain. 56. (472) May the great gods of heaven and earth, who inhabit the world, all those that are named in this tablet, strike you down, look with
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