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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,...

33. (377) If you try to reverse the curse, to avert the consequences of the oath, think up and carry out stratagems in order to reverse the curse, to avert the consequences of the oath, you and your sons who will live in the future will be adjured14 by this15 oath on behalf of the crown prince designate Ashurbanipal, son of your lord Esarhaddon, which will stay (in vigor) from today until after this treaty. 34. (385) If you, as you stand on the soil where this oath (is sworn), swear the oath with
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