Mari and the Early Israelite Experience (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780197261170)

In 1936 a French archaeological expedition to Mari, the capital of a kingdom on the Middle Euphrates in Syria, uncovered a vast archive of some 25,000 cuneiform tablets. Examining this huge corpus of Old Babylonian documents, mostly from the Mari palace, Malamat provides evidence of how the tablets reveal a vivid picture of Mesopotamia at a time when the Israelites were in their earliest formative stage. The broad spectrum of the Mari documents, from exotic prophecies to political intrigue, provides innumerable opportunities for comparative research into early Israel, the Bible, and Biblical Hebrew.

Author: Abraham Malamat
ISBN-10: 0197261175
ISBN-13: 9780197261170
Publisher: British Academy
Language: English
Published: 02/27/1992
Pages: 174
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.13w x 0.70d