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Hidden Riches: A Sourcebook for the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East is unavailable, but you can change that!

This study considers the historical, cultural, and literary significance of some of the most important Ancient Near East (ANE) texts that illuminate the Hebrew Bible. Christopher B. Hays provides primary texts from the Ancient Near East with a comparison to literature of the Hebrew Bible to demonstrate how Israel’s Scriptures not only draw from these ancient contexts but also reshape them in a...

cuneiform inscriptions from Mesopotamia”;22 on the other hand, the comparison is not at all simple, and the complexities that arise introduce certain difficulties that are characteristic of the whole enterprise. Before focusing on the questions of these stories’ meanings in their contexts, one should note how far back into human history flood stories reach and how widely they are distributed. There are more than 300 known accounts of a great flood,
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