Ancient near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament

Abstract

Egyptian myths, tales, and mortuary texts -- Sumerian myths and epic tales -- Akkadian myths and epics -- Hittite myths, epics, and legends -- Ugaritic myths, epics, and legends -- Collections of laws from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor -- Egyptian and Hittite treaties -- Akkadian treaties from Syria and Assyria -- Hittite instructions -- Documents from the practice of law -- Egyptian historical texts -- Babylonian and Assyrian historical texts -- Hittite historical texts -- Palestinian inscriptions -- Egyptian rituals and incantations -- Akkadian rituals -- Hittite rituals, incantations, and description of festivals -- Egyptian hymns and prayers -- Sumerian petition -- Sumero-Akkadian hymns and prayers -- Sumerian hymns -- Hittite prayers -- Fables and didactic tales -- Proverbs and precepts -- Observations on life and the world order -- Oracles and prophecies -- Sumerian lamentations -- Egyptian secular songs and poems -- An Egyptian letter -- A Sumerian letter -- Akkadian letters -- Aramaic letters -- Egyptian texts -- Sumerian sacred marriage texts -- Sumerian miscellaneous texts -- Sumerian love song -- Hittite omen -- Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions -- South-Arabian inscriptions.