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Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament and Methuselah

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Difference between Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament and Methuselah

Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament vs. Methuselah

Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament edited by James B. Pritchard (1st ed. 1950, 2nd ed.1955, 3rd ed. 1969 is an anthology of important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts from the ancient Near East. William W. Hallo, writing in the Journal of the American Oriental Society in 1970, described it as "a modern classic ever since its first appearance in 1950", because "for the first time it assembled some of the most significant Ancient Near Eastern texts in authoritative, generously annotated English translations based on the accumulated insight of several generations of scholarship scattered". It is conventional to cite the work as ANET. ANEP refers to a companion volume Ancient Near Eastern Pictures Relating to the Old Testament (1st ed. 1954, 2nd ed. 1969), featuring 882 black and white designs and photos. An additional volume of supplementary texts and pictures was published in 1969 as "The Ancient Near East: Supplementary Texts and Pictures Relating to the Old Testament". An abridgement of ANET and ANEP was published in a single volume in 1958 as "The Ancient Near East, Volume I: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures" with a 2nd edition published in 1965. A second anthology of supplementary material was published in 1975 as "Ancient Near East, Volume 2: A New Anthology of Texts and Pictures". Methuselah (מְתוּשֶׁלַח, Methushelah "Man of the dart/spear", or alternatively "his death shall bring judgment") is a biblical patriarch and a figure in Judaism and Christianity.

Similarities between Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament and Methuselah

Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament and Methuselah have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Flood myth, James B. Pritchard, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Sumer.

Flood myth

A flood myth or deluge myth is a narrative in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution.

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James B. Pritchard

James Bennett Pritchard (October 4, 1909 – January 1, 1997) was an American archeologist whose work explicated the interrelationships of the religions of ancient Palestine, Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon.

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Journal of the American Oriental Society

The Journal of the American Oriental Society is a quarterly academic journal published by the American Oriental Society since 1843.

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Sumer

SumerThe name is from Akkadian Šumeru; Sumerian en-ĝir15, approximately "land of the civilized kings" or "native land".

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Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament and Methuselah Comparison

Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament has 58 relations, while Methuselah has 78. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 2.94% = 4 / (58 + 78).

References

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