Stories in Scripture and Inscriptions: Comparative Studies on Narratives in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions and the Hebrew Bible

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

SIMON B. PARKER, Stories in Scripture and Inscriptions: Comparative Studies on Narratives in Northwest Semitic Inscriptions and the Hebrew Bible (New York/ Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997). Pp. ix + 195. S39.95.

In these comparative studies Parker deals with various types of narratives preserved in the Hebrew Bible and with some eight Northwest Semitic inscriptions dating from the ninth to the seventh centuries ll. He justifies his departure from the usual practice of comparing biblical narratives with ancient Near Eastern mythic-epic literature such as the stories of creation and of ...

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