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Admonition and curse : the ancient near Eastern treaty/covenant form as a problem in inter-cultural relationships /
The occurrence of treaties throughout the Ancient Near East has been investigated on a number of occasions, generally in order to resolve certain questions arising in the biblical field. As a result of that focus, the existence of a similar institution in a number of different cultures has not been...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
T & T Clark International,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ;
407. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The occurrence of treaties throughout the Ancient Near East has been investigated on a number of occasions, generally in order to resolve certain questions arising in the biblical field. As a result of that focus, the existence of a similar institution in a number of different cultures has not been treated as a problem in itself. Generally the existence of treaties throughout the area has been taken for granted, or a simple borrowing model has been used to explain how similar forms came to be used in different cultures. Why forms were similar across the area has not been probed. This work inve. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 211 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-209) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780567005441 0567005445 |