Documents from Old Testament Times (Torchbooks) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061300853 ISBN 13: 9780061300851

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1965

Synopsis

This volumes includes almost one hundred ancient documents from the ancient Near East that have relevance for the study ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. It includes more than twenty photos of these documents, a newly updated bibliography, and a new foreword. The aim throughout the volume has been to relate each document as closely as possible to the Old Testament, and to bring out relevant points of interest touching history, chronology, archaeology, religion, literature, geography, and so on, in illustration of the Old Testament. Not all Israel's story is told in the Old Testament. It has to be supplemented by the evidence of ancient documents discovered by archaeologists-inscriptions on clay, stone, seals and coins, and writings on potsherds, papyrus and leather. Some part of this story it is the purpose of this volume to tell. . . . While Israel is not without her testimony to herself, it is for the most part the witness of her neighbours which is met with in the pages of this volume. -from the Preface

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0061300853
• ISBN 13: 9780061300851
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275
• Editor: Thomas D. Winton