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Old Testament Parallels: Laws and Stories from the Ancient Near East (4th Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Old Testament Parallels has been, since its first edition, one of Paulist Press's best-regarded and best-selling titles. It has brought fresh and reader-friendly translation of the most important near east documents that share parallel themes and issues within biblical studies. This fourth edition has been completely revised in light of the ongoing and exciting discoveries of more and more...

Before 1900, British archaeologists recovered tablets from Uruk and Nippur that were copied around 2000–1500 BCE, and one from Babylon. They told a Birth Story of Sargon I and the Rise to Power of Sargon I. All were written in cuneiform, some in the Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language and one in the Babylonian dialect. They are preserved today in the British Museum (London). The Rise to Power of Sargon I (2334–2279 BCE) celebrates him as a royal official [Akkadian:
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