Biblical Bibliographies
Charles Conroy [www.cjconroy.net]



Prophets in the Ancient Near East



[see also:  Ancient Near East;  Prophets: general studies]



The bibliography is divided into twelve sections, followed by an appendix listing some translations of the relevant texts:

1.    Divination and related phenomena in the Ancient Near East (including Israel)

Annus, A. (ed.), Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World (Oriental Institute Seminars, 6; Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2010).

Anthonioz, S., "Divination-Relics in the Deuteronomistic History and the Birth or the End of Mosaic Prophecy", Semitica 56 (2014) 291-312.

Auld, A. G., "'Divination' in Hebrew and Greek Bibles: A Text-Historical Overview", in H. Bezzel – S. Pfeiffer (eds.), Prophecy and Hellenism (FAT II/129; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021) 55-67. Reprinted in A. G. Auld, Seeing David Double: Reading the Book of Two Houses. Collected Essays (BZAW 550; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023) 75-87.

Beal, R. H., "Hittite Oracles", in L. Ciraolo – J. Seidel (eds.), Magic and Divination in the Ancient World (Ancient Magic and Divination, 2; Leiden: Brill – Styx, 2002) 57-81.

Beerden, K., Worlds Full of Signs: Ancient Greek Divination in Context (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 176; Leiden: Brill, 2013).

Bottéro, J., "Symptômes, signes, écritures en Mésopotamie ancienne", in J. Vernant et al., Divination et rationalité (Paris: Seuil, 1974) 70-197.

Cooley, J. L., Poetic Astronomy in the Ancient Near East: The Reflexes of Celestial Science in Ancient Mesopotamian, Ugaritic, and Israelite Narrative (History, Archaeology, and Culture of the Levant, 5; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013).

Cranz, I., "The Rhetoric of Prohibtions: Divination and Magic in Deuteronomy and Leviticus", Semitica 60 (2018) 139-158.

Crisostomo, C. J. – E. A. Escobar – T. Tanaka – N. Veldhuis (eds.), The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts: Essays on Assyriology and the History of Science in Honor of Francesca Rochberg (Ancient Magic and Divination, 13; Leiden: Brill, 2018). [contains many essays on divination]

Crouch, C. L. – J. Stökl – A. E. Zernecke (eds.), Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East (LHB/OTS 566; London – New York: T & T Clark, 2012).

Cryer, F. H., Divination in Ancient Israel and its Near Eastern Environment: A Socio-Historical Investigation (JSOTSup 142; Sheffield; JSOT Press, 1994).

Driediger-Murphy, L. G. – E. Eidinow (eds.), Ancient Divination and Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019).

Durand, J.-M. – A. Jacquet (eds.), Magie et divination dans les cultures de l'Orient. Actes du colloque organisé par l'Institut du Proche-Orient Ancien du Collège de France, la Société asiatique et le CNRS (UMR 7192) les 19 et 20 juin 2008, Paris, Collège de France (Cahiers de l'Institut du Proche-Orient ancien du Collège de France, 3; Paris: Maisonneuve, 2010).

Eshel, E. – I. Stern, "Divination Texts of Maresha – Archeology and Texts", Archaeology and Text: A Journal for the Integration of Material Culture with Written Documents in the Ancient Mediterranean and Near East 1 (2017) 7-25.

Eshel, E. – M. Langlois – M. Geller, "The Aramaic Divination Texts", in B. Hensel – E. Ben Zvi – D. V. Edelman (eds.), About Edom and Idumea in the Persian Period: Recent Research and Approaches from Archaeology, Hebrew Bible Studies and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Worlds of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean; Sheffield: Equinox, 2022) 302-317.

Ferrer Albelda, E. – Á. Pereira Delgado (eds.), Profecía y adivinación en las religiones de la Antigüedad (SPAL Monografías, 24; Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2017).

Fincke, J. C. (ed.), Divination in the Ancient Near East: A Workshop on Divination Conducted During the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Würzburg, 2008 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2014).

Fincke, J. C., "Divination im Alten Orient: Ein Überblick", in J. C. Fincke (ed.), Divination in the Ancient Near East: A Workshop on Divination Conducted During the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Würzburg, 2008 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2014) 1-20.

Fincke, J. C. (ed.), Divination as Science: A Workshop Conducted During the 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Warsaw, 2014 (Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, 60W1; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2016).

Fleming, D. E., "Writing as Administrative Option: The Diviner of the Gods at Late Bronze Age Emar", in A. Jördens – U. Yiftach (eds.), Accounts and Bookkeeping in the Ancient World (Legal Documents in Ancient Societies, 8 – Philippika 55,2; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020) 26-35.

Georgoudi, S. – R. Koch Piettre – F. Schmidt (eds.), La raison des signes: présages, rites, destin dans les sociétés de la Méditerranée ancienne (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, 174; Leiden: Brill, 2012).

Glassner, J.-J., "L'herméneutique des devins mésopotamiens", in C. Batsch – M. Vartejanu-Joubert (eds.), Manières de penser dans l'Antiquité méditerranéenne et orientale. Mélanges offerts à Francis Schmidt par ses élèves, ses collègues et ses amis (JSJSup 134; Leiden: Brill, 2009) 39-50.

Glassner, J.-J., Le devin historien en Mésopotamie (Ancient Magic and Divination, 16; Leiden: Brill, 2019).

Haas, V., Hethitische Orakel, Vorzeichen und Abwehrstrategien: ein Beitrag zur hethitischen Kulturgeschichte (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2008).

Hamori, E. J., "Childless Female Diviners in the Bible and Beyond", in J. Stökl – C. L. Carvalho (eds.), Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East (Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 15; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013) 169-191.

Hamori, E. J., Women's Divination in Biblical Literature: Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge (AYBRL; New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015).

Hamori, E. J. – J. Stökl (eds.), Perchance to Dream: Dream Divination in the Bible and the Ancient Near East (ANEM 21; Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2018). The volume can be downloaded here.

Heeßel, N. P., "The Hermeneutics of Mesopotamian Extispicy: Theory vs. Practice", in C. L. Crouch – J. Stökl – A. E. Zernecke (eds.), Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East (LHB/OTS 566; London – New York: T & T Clark, 2012) 16-35.

Heeßel, N. P., "Die altorientalische Divination als antikes Wissenschaftssystem", BTZ 38 (2021) 48-66.

Huffmon, H. B., "The Exclusivity of Divine Communication in Ancient Israel: False Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East", in C. L. Crouch – J. Stökl – A. E. Zernecke (eds.), Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East (LHB/OTS 566; London – New York: T & T Clark, 2012) 67-81.

Jacobus, H. R. – A. K. de Hemmer Gudme – P. Guillaume (eds.), Studies on Magic and Divination in the Biblical World (Biblical Intersections, 11; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2013).

Jeffers, A., Magic and Divination in Ancient Palestine and Syria (Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, 8; Leiden: Brill, 1996)

Jeffers, A., "Interpreting Magic and Divination in the Ancient Near East", Religion Compass 1 (2007) 684-694. (online journal)

Jeffers, A., "Magic and Divination in Ancient Israel", Religion Compass 1 (2007) 628-642. (online journal)

Jeffers, A., "Teaching and Learning Guide for: 'Interpreting Magic and Divination in the Ancient Near East' and 'Magic and Divination in Ancient Israel'", Religion Compass 2 (2008) 875-881. [This guide, with bibliography, accompanies the following articles: "Magic and Divination in Ancient Israel", Religion Compass 1 (2007) 628-642, and "Interpreting Magic and Divination in the Ancient Near East", Religion Compass 1 (2007) 684-694.] (online journal)

Kammenhuber, A., Orakelpraxis, Träume und Vorzeichenschau bei den Hethitern (Texte der Hethiter, 7; Heidelberg: Winter, 1976).

Koch-Westenholz, U., Mesopotamian Astrology: An Introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Celestial Divination (The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, Publications 19; Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press of the University of Copenhagen, 1995).

Koch, U., et al., "Divination", EBR 6 (2013) 951-964. Details: I. Ancient Near East (U. Koch) 951-959; II. Hebrew Bible / Old Testament (R. Schmitt) 959-961; III. Greco-Roman Antiquity (P. Botha) 961-964; IV. Literature (C. Petterson) 964.

Koch, U. S., Mesopotamian Divination Texts: Conversing with the Gods. Sources from the First Millennium BCE (Guides to the Mesopotamian Textual Record, 7; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2015).

Lenzi, A. – J. Stökl (eds.), Divination, Politics, and Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEM 7; Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2014). The volume can be downloaded here.

Lobel, A. D., "Diviners in High Places: On Interpreting the Night Skies of the Ancient Near East", in J. S. Du Toit – J. Kalman – H. Lachter – V. R. Sasson (eds.), To Fix Torah in Their Hearts: Essays on Biblical Interpretation and Jewish Studies in Honor of B. Barry Levy (Cincinnati, OH: Hebrew Union College Press, 2018) 23-57.

Marchetti, N., "Divination at Ebla during the Old Syrian Period: The Archaeological Evidence", in J. D. Schloen (ed.), Exploring the Longue Durée: Essays in Honor of Lawrence E. Stager (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009) 279-295.

Maul, S. M., Die Wahrsagekunst im Alten Orient: Zeichen des Himmels und der Erde (Historische Bibliothek der Gerda Henkel Stiftung; München: Beck, 2013). English version: The Art of Divination in the Ancient Near East: Reading the Signs of Heaven and Earth (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2018).

Mouton, A., Rêves hittites: contribution à une histoire et une anthropologie du rêve en Anatolie ancienne (CHANE 28; Leiden: Brill, 2007), esp. 30-54 ("Le rêve-message").

Nigosian, S. A., Magic and Divination in the Old Testament (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2008).

Nissinen, M., "Pesharim as Divination. Qumran Exegesis, Omen Interpretation and Literary Prophecy", in K. De Troyer – A. Lange (eds.), Prophecy After the Prophets? The Contribution of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Understanding of Biblical and Extra-Biblical Prophecy (CBET 52; Leuven: Peeters, 2009) 43-60. Reprinted in M. Nissinen, Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (BZAW 494; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019) 663-680.

Nissinen, M., "Comparing Prophetic Sources: Principles and a Test Case", in J. Day (ed.), Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (LHB/OTS 531; London & New York: T & T Clark, 2010) 3-24. [on "prophecy as divination" pp. 15-20]. Reprinted in M. Nissinen, Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (BZAW 494; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019) 377-396.

Nissinen, M., "Prophecy and Omen Divination: Two Sides of the Same Coin", in A. Annus (ed.), Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World (Oriental Institute Seminars, 6; Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2010) 341-351. Reprinted in M. Nissinen, Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (BZAW 494; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019) 75-85.

Noegel, S. B., "Augur Anxieties in the Ancient Near East", in L. G. Driediger-Murphy – E. Eidinow (eds.), Ancient Divination and Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019) 17-43.

Paganini, S., "Ein Gesetz zum Schutz der korrekten Kulthandlungen: Zauberei, Magie und andere verbotene Praktiken in Dtn 18,9-14", in J. Kamlah – R. Schäfer – M. Witte (eds.), Zauber und Magie im antiken Palästina und in seiner Umwelt : Kolloquium des Deutschen Vereins zur Erforschung Palästinas vom 14. bis 16. November 2014 in Mainz (ADPV 46; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag in Kommission, 2017) 309-342.

Prato, G. L., "Se la profezia è divinazione..: Considerazioni in margine a un'istituzione biblica integrata", in A. Cavicchia – M. Cucca (eds.), "Figlio d'uomo alzati, ti voglio parlare" (Ez 2,1): Studi in onore di Marco Nobile in occasione del suo 75º compleanno (Bibliotheca 43; Roma: Antonianum, 2018) 153-182.

Rochberg, F. R., In the Path of the Moon: Babylonian Celestial Divination and Its Legacy (Ancient Magic and Divination, 6; Leiden: Brill, 2010).

Roche-Hawley, C. – R. Hawley (eds.), Devins et lettrés dans l'orbite de Babylone. Travaux réalisés dans le cadre du project ANR Mespériph 2007-2011 (Orient and Méditerranée, 16; Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2015).

Schmitt, R., Mantik im Alten Testament (AOAT 411; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2014).

Schwemer, D., "Orakel und Omina: Hethitische Vorzeichenkunden": online at Hethitologie Portal Mainz. English version "Oracles and Omens: Hittite Divination" here.

Scurlock, J.A., "Prophecy as a Form of Divination; Divination as a Form of Prophecy: New Light on Sennacherib at Jerusalem and Nahum", in A. Annus (ed.), Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World (Oriental Institute Seminars, 6; Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2010) 277-316.

Sicre Díaz, J. L., "Adivinación y profecía en el Antiguo Testamento", in E. Ferrer Albelda – Á. Pereira Delgado (eds.), Profecía y adivinación en las religiones de la Antigüedad (SPAL Monografías, 24; Sevilla: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, 2017) 35-51.

Starr, I., Queries to the Sungod. Divination and Politics in Sargonid Assyria (State Archives of Assyria, 4; Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1990). (online here)

Stökl, J., "(Intuitive) Divination, (Ethical) Demands and Diplomacy in the Ancient Near East", in C. L. Crouch – J. Stökl – A. E. Zernecke (eds.), Mediating Between Heaven and Earth: Communication with the Divine in the Ancient Near East (LHB/OTS 566; London – New York: T & T Clark, 2012) 82-92.

Struck, P. T., Divination and Human Nature: A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016).

Tervannotko, H., "Reading God's Will? Function and Status of Oracle Interpretation in Ancient Jewish and Greek Texts", DSD 24 (2017) 424-446.

Thelle, R., "Reflections of Ancient Israelite Divination in the Former Prophets", in M. R. Jacobs – R. F. Person Jr. (eds.), Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History: Portrait, Reality, and the Formation of a History (Ancient Israel and its Literature, 14; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013) 7-33.

Tiemeyer, L.-S. (ed.), Prophecy and Its Cultic Dimensions (JAJSup 31; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019).

Ulanowski, K., Neo-Assyrian and Greek Divination in War (CHANE 118 – Ancient Warfare, 3; Leiden: Brill, 2021).

Verderame, L., "Messaggeri degli dei: infanzia e divinazione nell'antica Mesopotamia", Hen 41 (2019) 15-22.

Wenzel, H., "Drawing a Line between Prophecy, Magic and Divination", in H. R. Jacobus – A. K. de Hemmer Gudme – P. Guillaume (eds.), Studies on Magic and Divination in the Biblical World (Biblical Intersections, 11; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2013) 77-87.

Winitzer, A., Early Mesopotamian Divination Literature: Its Organizational Framework and Generative and Paradigmatic Characteristics (Ancient Magic and Divination, 12; Leiden: Brill, 2017).

Zuesse, E. M., "Divination", in M. Eliade et al. (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 4 (New York: Macmillan, 1987) 376-378. Updated second edition under the title "Divination: An Overview", in L. Jones (editor-in-chief), Encyclopedia of Religion. Second edition (Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA – Thomson Gale, 2005), vol. 4, 2369-2375. [revised bibliography with the text of the first edition article]

2.    General studies on prophecy in the ancient Near East (in itself and as context for prophecy in Israel)      [top of page]

Anthonioz, S. – A. Mouton – D. Petit (eds.), When Gods Speak to Men: Divine Speech According to Textual Sources in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin (OBO 289; Leuven: Peeters, 2019).

Barstad, H. M., "Comparare necesse est? Ancient Israelite and Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy in a Comparative Perspective", in M. Nissinen (ed.), Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives (Society of Biblical Literature. Symposium Series, 13; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000) 3-11.

Ben Zvi, E. – M. H. Floyd (eds.), Writings and Speech in Israelite and Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (SBLSymS 10; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000).

Blum, E., "Israels Prophetie im altorientalischen Kontext. Anmerkungen zu neueren religionsgeschichtlichen Thesen", in I. Cornelius – L. Jonker (eds.), »From Ebla to Stellenbosch«. Syro-Palestinian Religions and the Hebrew Bible (ADPV 37; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2008) 81-115.

Durand, J.-M. – T. Römer – M. Burki (eds.), Comment devient-on prophète? Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 4-5 avril 2011 (OBO 265; Fribourg: Academic Press Fribourg, 2014).

Ebach, R., "Prophetie im Alten Orient, Ägypten und Griechenland", in R. Ebach, Trügende Prophetenworte: Zum Umgang mit falscher und unerfüllter Prophetie im Alten Testament im Kontext altorientalischer und antiker Divination (FAT 165; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023) 19-83.

Ernst, S., "Prophetie im Alten Orient und die Frage nach Verbindungen und Auswirkungen auf die Prophetie im Alten Israel – Ein Forschungsüberblick", in M.-T. Wacker – U. Bechmann – G. Langer (eds.), Prophetie in Tenach, Bibel und Qurʾan: Konturen – Strukturen – Figuren (BWANT 237; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2023) 37-49.

Gordon, R. P., "Where Have All the Prophets Gone? The 'Disappearing' Israelite Prophet Against the Background of Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy", Bulletin for Biblical Research 5 (1995) 67-86. Reprinted [same title] in R. P. Gordon, Hebrew Bible and Ancient Versions: Selected Essays (SOTSMS; Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) 132-148.

Gordon, R. P. – H. Barstad (eds.), "Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela": Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013).

Grabbe, L. L., "Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy from an Anthropological Perspective", in M. Nissinen (ed.), Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives (Society of Biblical Literature. Symposium Series, 13; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000) 13-32.

Grund, A., "Kritik, Unheil, erste Sammlungen: zum altorientalischen Hintergrund der israelitischen Schriftprophetie", BZ N.F. 57 (2013) 216-243.

Heintz, J.-G. (ed.), Oracles et prophéties dans l'antiquité. Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 15-17 Juin 1995 (Université des sciences humaines de Strasbourg. Travaux du Centre de Recherche sur le Proche-Orient et la Grèce Antiques, 15; Paris: De Boccard, 1997).

Heintz, J.-G., "La 'fin' des prophètes bibliques? Nouvelles théories et documents sémitiques anciens", in J.-G. Heintz (ed.), Oracles et prophéties dans l'antiquité. Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 15-17 Juin 1995 (Université des sciences humaines de Strasbourg. Travaux du Centre de Recherche sur le Proche-Orient et la Grèce Antiques, 15; Paris: De Boccard, 1997) 195-214. Reprinted [same title] in J.-G. Heintz, Prophétisme et Alliance: Des Archives royales de Mari à la Bible hébraïque. Édité par S. Lauber avec O. Keel et H.-U. Steymans, mit einem Vorwort von M. Weippert (OBO 271; Fribourg: Academic Press; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015) 75-92.

Hilber, J. W., "The Relationship of Prophecy and Wisdom in the Ancient Near East", in M. J. Boda – R. L. Meek – W. R. Osborne (eds.), Riddles and Revelations: Explorations into the Relationship between Wisdom and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible (LHB/OTS 634; London & New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2018) 55-72.

Huffmon, H. B., "Prophecy: Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy", ABD V (1992) 477-482.

Huffmon, H. B., "The One and the Many. Prophets and Deities in the Ancient Near East", in M. Köckert – M. Nissinen (eds.), Propheten in Mari, Assyrien und Israel (FRLANT 201; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003) 116-131.

Kelle, B. E., "The Phenomenon of Israelite Prophecy in Contemporary Scholarship", CBR 12.3 (June 2014) 275-320.

Köckert, M. – M. Nissinen (eds.), Propheten in Mari, Assyrien und Israel (FRLANT 201; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003).

Lenzi, A., "Revisiting Biblical Prophecy, Revealed Knowledge Pertaining to Ritual, and Secrecy in Light of Ancient Mesopotamian Prophetic Texts", in A. Lenzi – J. Stökl, eds., Divination, Politics, and Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEM 7; Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2014) 65-86. The volume can be downloaded here.

Merlo, P., "Il profetismo nel Vicino Oriente antico: panoramica di un fenomeno e difficoltà comparative", in G. L. Prato (ed.), Religione biblica e religione storica dell'antico Israele: un monopolio interpretativo nella continuità culturale. Atti del XV Convegno di Studi Veterotestamentari (Fara Sabina, 10–12 Settembre 2007) (Ricerche storico-bibliche, 21/1; Bologna: Edizioni Dehoniane, 2009) 55-83.

Nissinen, M. (ed.), Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives (Society of Biblical Literature. Symposium Series, 13; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000).

Nissinen, M. (ed.), Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East. In collaboration with C. L. Seow, R. K. Ritner, and P. Machinist (WAW 12; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003). [for the second edition see below s.v. Nissinen 2019]

Nissinen, M., "What is Prophecy? An Ancient Near Eastern Perspective", in J. Kaltner – L. Stulman (eds.), Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East. Essays in Honor of Herbert B. Huffmon (JSOTSup 372; London: T & T Clark International, 2004) 17-37. Reprinted in M. Nissinen, Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (BZAW 494; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019) 53-73.

Nissinen, M. – C. E. Carter (eds.), Images and Prophecy in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean (FRLANT 233; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009).

Nissinen, M., "Biblical Prophecy from a Near Eastern Perspective: The Cases of Kingship and Divine Possession", in A. Lemaire (ed.), Congress Volume Ljubljana 2007 (VTSup 133; Leiden: Brill, 2010) 441-468. Reprinted in M. Nissinen, Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (BZAW 494; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019) 351-376.

Nissinen, M., "Comparing Prophetic Sources: Principles and a Test Case", in J. Day (ed.), Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (LHB/OTS 531; London & New York: T & T Clark, 2010) 3-24. Reprinted in M. Nissinen, Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (BZAW 494; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019) 377-396.

Nissinen, M., "Prophètes et temples dans le Proche-Orient ancien et les textes bibliques", in J.-D. Macchi – C. Nihan – T. Römer – J. Rückl (eds.), Les recueils prophétiques de la Bible. Origines, milieux, et contexte proche-oriental (Le monde de la Bible, 64; Genève: Labor et Fides, 2012) 74-111.

Nissinen, M., "Gender and Prophetic Agency in the Ancient Near East and in Greece", in J. Stökl – C. L. Carvalho (eds.), Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East (Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 15; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013) 27-58.

Nissinen, M., "Prophecy as Construct: Ancient and Modern", in R. P. Gordon – H. Barstad (eds.), "Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela": Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013) 11-36. Reprinted in M. Nissinen, Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (BZAW 494; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019) 3-27.

Nissinen, M., "Prophets and Prophecy in Joshua–Kings: A Near Eastern Perspective", in M. R. Jacobs – R. F. Person Jr. (eds.), Israelite Prophecy and the Deuteronomistic History: Portrait, Reality, and the Formation of a History (SBLAIL 14; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013) 103-128. Reprinted in M. Nissinen, Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (BZAW 494; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019) 539-562.

Nissinen, M., "Prophetic Intermediation in the Ancient Near East", in C. J. Sharp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets (Oxford Handbooks; Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2016) 5-22.

Nissinen, M., Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).

Nissinen, M., "Nichtmännliche Prophetie in Quellen des Alten Orients", in I. Fischer – J. Claassens (eds.), Prophetie (Die Bibel und die Frauen, 1/2; Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2019) 65-94. Reprinted (from the English version of the Prophetie volume) as "Non-Male Prophets in Ancient Near Eastern Sources", in M. Nissinen, Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (BZAW 494; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019) 127-152.

Nissinen, M., "Oracles as Artefacts: The Material Aspect of Prophecy", in S. Anthonioz – A. Mouton – D. Petit (eds.), When Gods Speak to Men: Divine Speech According to Textual Sources in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin (OBO 289; Leuven: Peeters, 2019) 49-64.

Nissinen, M., Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (BZAW 494; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019).

Nissinen, M. (ed.), with the collaboration of C. L. Seow – R. K. Ritner – H. C. Melchert, Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East. Second edition (WAW 41; Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2019). [for the first edition see above s.v. Nissinen 2003]

Nissinen, M., "The Ritual Aspect of Prophecy", in L.-S. Tiemeyer (ed.), Prophecy and Its Cultic Dimensions (JAJSup 31; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019) 101-114.

Nissinen, M., "Why Prophecy Is (Not) Magic?", in R. Müller – U. Nõmmik – J. Pakkala (eds.), Fortgeschriebenes Gotteswort: Studien zu Geschichte, Theologie und Auslegung des Alten Testaments. Festschrift für Christoph Levin zum 70. Geburtstag (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020) 213-226.

Nissinen, M., Reste altorientalischen Prophetentums in der Bibel (Julius-Wellhausen-Vorlesung, 9; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021).

Petersen, D. L., "Defining Prophecy and Prophetic Literature", in M. Nissinen (ed.), Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives (Society of Biblical Literature. Symposium Series, 13; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000) 33-44.

Ramlot, L., "Prophétisme, I: Prophétisme et politique en Orient", DBSup 8 (1972) 812-908.

Ringgren, H., "Prophecy in the Ancient Near East", in R. Coggins – A. Phillips – M. Knibb (eds.), Israel's Prophetic Tradition: Essays in Honour of Peter R. Ackroyd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982) 1-11.

Schaper, J., "Prophecy in Israel and Assyria: Are We Comparing Apples and Pears? The Materiality of Writing and the Avoidance of Parallelomania", in R. P. Gordon – H. Barstad (eds.), "Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela": Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013) 225-238.

Sparks, K. L., "Intermediary Texts: Omens and Prophecies", in K. L. Sparks, Ancient Texts for the Study of the Hebrew Bible: A Guide to the Background Literature (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005) 216-239.

Stökl, J., "Female Prophets in the Ancient Near East", in J. Day (ed.), Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (LHB/OTS 531; London & New York: T & T Clark, 2010) 47-61.

Stökl, J., "Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy", in M. J. Boda – J. G. McConville (eds.), Dictionary of the Old Testament: Prophets (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2012) 16-24.

Stökl, J., "How Unique Was Israelite Prophecy?", in A. T. Levenson (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism (Hoboken, NJ – Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) 53-69.

Stökl, J., Prophecy in the Ancient Near East: A Philological and Sociological Comparison (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 56; Leiden: Brill, 2012).

Stökl, J., "Gender 'Ambiguity' in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy? A Reassessment of the Data behind a Popular Theory", in J. Stökl – C. L. Carvalho (eds.), Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East (Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 15; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013) 59-79.

Stökl, J. – C. L. Carvalho (eds.), Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East (Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 15; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013).

Stökl, J., "Prophecy and the Royal Court in the Ancient Near East", Religion Compass 9 (2014) 55-65. (online journal)

Stökl, J., "Prophetic Hermeneutics in the Hebrew Bible and Mesopotamia", HeBAI 4 (2015) 267-292.

Ulanowski, K., "A Comparison of the Role of the bārû and mantis in Ancient Warfare", in K. Ulanowski (ed.), The Religious Aspects of War in Ancient Near East, Greece, and Rome (CHANE 84 /Ancient Warfare, 1; Leiden: Brill, 2016) 63-98.

Weeks, S., "Predictive and Prophetic Literature: Can Neferti Help Us Read the Bible?", in J. Day (ed.), Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (LHB/OTS 531; London & New York: T & T Clark, 2010) 25-46.

Weippert, M., "Prophetie im Alten Orient", in M. Görg – B. Lang (eds.), Neues Bibel-Lexikon III (Zürich: Benziger, 2001) 196-200.

Weippert, M., Götterwort in Menschenmund: Studien zur Prophetie in Assyrien, Israel und Juda (FRLANT 252; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014).

Zsolnay, I., "The Misconstrued Role of the assinnu in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy", in J. Stökl – C. L. Carvalho (eds.), Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East (Ancient Israel and Its Literature, 15; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013) 81-99.

3.    Prophecy in ancient Egypt (including the Greco-Roman period):  a debated question      [top of page]

Becking, B., "Prophetic Elements in Papyrus Amherst 63", in V. Bachmann – A. Schellenberg – F. Ueberschaer (eds.), Menschsein in Weisheit und Freiheit. Festschrift für Thomas Krüger (OBO 296; Leuven: Peeters, 2022) 365-378. Open access here.

Bresciani, E., "'Il pleut sur la pierre': Prophéties politiques dans la littérature démotique", in J. Assmann – E. Blumenthal (eds.), Literatur und Politik im pharaonischen und ptolemäischen Ägypten: Vorträge der Tagung zum Gedenken an Georges Posener, 5.-10. September 1996 in Leipzig (Bibliothèque d'étude, 127; Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1996) 279-284.

Daumas, F., "Littérature prophétique et exégétique égyptienne et commentaires esséniens", in A la rencontre de Dieu. Mémorial Albert Gelin (Bibliothèque de la Faculté Catholique de Théologie de Lyon, 8; Le Puy: Éditions Xavier Mappus, 1961) 203-221.

Edelman, D. V., "Of Priests and Prophets and Interpreting the Past: The Egyptian hm-ntr and hry-hbt and the Judahite nabî’", in P. R. Davies – D. V. Edelman (eds.), The Historian and the Bible: Essays in Honour of Lester L. Grabbe (LHB/OTS 530; London: T & T Clark, 2010) 103-112.

Goff, J., Prophetie und Politik in Israel und im alten Ägypten (Beiträge zur Ägyptologie, 7 – Veröffentlichungen der Institute für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie der Universität Wien, Institut für Afrikanistik, 41; Wien, AFRO-PUB, 1986).

Gundlach, R., "'Ich sage etwas, was noch geschehen wird.' 'Propheten' im Staat der Pharaonen", in H. Wißmann (ed.), Zur Erschließiung von Zukunft in den Religionen. Zukunftshoffnung und Gegenwartsbewältigung in der Religionsgeschichte (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1991) 11-25.

Hilber, J. W., "Prophetic Speech in the Egyptian Royal Cult", in J. K. Aitken – K. J. Dell – B. A. Mastin (eds.), On Stone and Scroll: Essays in Honour of Graham Ivor Davies (BZAW 420; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011) 39-53.

Hilber, J. W., "Royal Cultic Prophecy in Assyria, Judah, and Egypt", in R. P. Gordon – H. Barstad (eds.), "Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela": Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013) 161-186.

Hilber, J. W., "Prophetic Ritual in the Egyptian Royal Cult", in L.-S. Tiemeyer (ed.), Prophecy and Its Cultic Dimensions (JAJSup 31; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019) 51-62.

Lanczkowski, G., Altägyptischer Prophetismus (Ägyptische Abhandlungen, 4: Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1960).

Liwak, R., "Herrschaft zur Überwindung der Krise. Politische Prophetie in Ägypten und Israel", in R. Lux – E.-J. Waschke (eds.), Die unwiderstehliche Wahrheit. Studien zur alttestamentlichen Prophetie. Festschrift für Arndt Meinhold (Arbeiten zur Bibel und ihrer Geschichte, 23; Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2006) 57-83. Reprinted [same title] in R. Liwak, Israel in der altorientalischen Welt: Gesammelte Studien zur Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte des antiken Israel. Hrsg. von M. Witte und D. Pruin (BZAW 444; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013) 94-120.

Quack, J. F., "Ein neuer prophetischer Text aus Tebtynis (Papyrus Carlsberg 399 + Papyrus PSI inv D.17 + Papyrus Tebtunis Tait 13 vs.)", in A. Blasius – B. U. Schipper (eds.), Apokalyptik und Ägypten: Eine kritische Analyse der relevanten Texte aus dem griechisch-römischen Ägypten (OLA 107; Leuven: Peeters, 2002) 253-274 (with Tafel IX-XVI).

Ramlot, L., "Prophétisme", DBSup 8 (1972) 812-868.

Schipper, B. U., "'Apokalyptik', 'Messianismus', 'Prophetie'. Eine Begriffsbestimmung", in A. Blasius – B. U. Schipper (eds.), Apokalyptik und Ägypten: Eine kritische Analyse der relevanten Texte aus dem griechisch-römischen Ägypten (OLA 107; Leuven: Peeters, 2002) 21-40.

Schipper, B. U., "Ein religionsgeschichtlicher Irrtum: Prophetie in Ägypten", Welt und Umwelt der Bibel 69 (2013/3) 12-15.

Schneider, T., "A Land without Prophets? Examining the Presumed Lack of Prophecy in Ancient Egypt", in C. A. Rollston (ed.), Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns – Penn State University Press, 2018) 59-86.

Shupak, N., "Egyptian 'Prophecy' and Biblical Prophecy: Did the Phenomenon of Prophecy, in the Biblical Sense, Exist in Ancient Egypt?", JEOL 31 (1989-90) 5-40.

Shupak, N., "The Egyptian 'Prophecy': A Reconsideration," in K. Zibelius-Chen – H.-W. Fischer-Elfert (eds.), "Von reichlich ägyptischem Verstande": Festschrift für Waltraud Guglielmi zum 65. Geburtstag (Philippika. Marburger altertumskundliche Abhandlungen, 11; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2006), 133-144.

Weeks, S., "Predictive and Prophetic Literature: Can Neferti Help Us Read the Bible?", in J. Day (ed.), Prophecy and the Prophets in Ancient Israel: Proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (LHB/OTS 531; London & New York: T & T Clark, 2010) 25-46.

4.    Prophecy in ancient Anatolia: a debated question      [top of page]

Beal, R. H., "Divination and Prophecy: Anatolia", in S. I. Johnston (gen. ed.), Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004) 381-382.

Dijkstra, M., "Prophets, Men of God, Wise Women: Dreams and Prophecies in Hittite Stories", in B. Becking – H. M. Barstad (eds.), Prophecy and Prophets in Stories: Papers Read at the Fifth Meeting of the Edinburgh Prophecy Network, Utrecht, October 2013 (OTS 65; Leiden: Brill, 2015) 11-25.

Fauth, W., "Hethitische Beschwörungspriesterinnen – israelitische Propheten. Differente Phänotypen magischer Religiosität in Vorderasien", in M. Dietrich – I. Kottsieper (eds.), "Und Mose schrieb dieses Lied auf": Studien zum Alten Testament und zum Alten Orient. Festschrift für Oswald Loretz zur Vollendung seines 70. Lebensjahres mit Beiträgen von Freunden, Schülern und Kollegen (AOAT 250; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 1998) 289-318.

Huffmon, H. B., "Prophecy (Ancient Near Eastern): B. Anatolia", ABD 5 (1992) 477-478 [477-482].

5.    Old Babylonian prophecy, esp. at Mari      [top of page]

Barstad, H., "Mari and the Hebrew Bible: Some Parallels", SEÅ 70 (2005) 21-32.

Barstad, H. M., "Sic dicit dominus: Mari Prophetic Texts and the Hebrew Bible", in Y. Amit – E. Ben Zvi – I. Finkelstein – O. Lipschits (eds.), Essays on Ancient Israel in its Near Eastern Context. A Tribute to Nadav Na'aman (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2006) 21-52.

Cagni, L. (a cura di), Le profezie di Mari (Testi del Vicino Oriente Antico II/2; Brescia: Paideia, 1995).

Charpin, D., "Prophètes et rois dans le Proche-orient amorrite", in A. Lemaire (ed.), Prophètes et rois: Bible et Proche-Orient (Lectio Divina hors série; Paris: Cerf, 2001) 21-53.

Charpin, D., "Le prophétisme dans le Proche-Orient d'après les archives de Mari (XVIIIe siècle av. J.-C.)", in J.-D. Macchi – C. Nihan – T. Römer – J. Rückl (eds.), Les recueils prophétiques de la Bible. Origines, milieux, et contexte proche-oriental (Le monde de la Bible, 64; Genève: Labor et Fides, 2012) 31-73.

Charpin, D., "Prophéties et rêves 'censurés' dans les archives royales de Mari", in J.-M. Durand – T. Römer – M. Bürki (eds.), Comment devient-on prophète? Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 4-5 avril 2011 (OBO 265; Fribourg: Academic Press; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014) 23-33.

Durand, J.-M., Archives épistolaires de Mari, I/1 (Archives royales de Mari, XXVI; Paris: Éditions Recherches sur les Civilisations, 1988).

Durand, J.-M., "Prophéties et rêves", in J.-Cl. Margueron – J.-M. Durand – D. Charpin – L. Marti – H. Reculeau – A. Jacquet – G. Chambon, "Tel Hariri / Mari", DBSup 14 [fasc. 77-78, 2008] 369-371 [17-456].

Durand, J.-M. [avec une contribution épigraphique de M. Guichard], "La guerre ou la paix? Réflexions sur les implications politiques d'une prophétie", in G. B. Lanfranchi – D. Morandi Bonacossi – C. Pappi – S. Ponchia (eds.), Leggo! Studies Presented to Frederick Mario Fales on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Leipziger Altorientalische Studien, 2; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012) 251-272. [on ARM XXVI, 199]

Fleming, D. E., "Prophets and Temple Personnel in the Mari Archives", in L. L. Grabbe – A. O. Bellis (eds.), The Priests in the Prophets. The Portrayal of Priests, Prophets and Other Religious Specialists in the Latter Prophets (JSOTSup 408; London: T & T Clark, 2004) 44-64.

Gordon, R. P., "Prophecy in the Mari and Nineveh Archives", in R. P. Gordon – H. Barstad (eds.), "Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela": Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013) 37-58.

Huffmon, H. B., "The Expansion of Prophecy in the Mari Archives: New Texts, New Readings, New Information", in Y. Gitay (ed.), Prophecy and Prophets: The Diversity of Contemporary Issues in Scholarship (Semeia Studies; Atlanta, GA: Scholars, 1997) 7-22.

Huffmon, H. B., "A Company of Prophets: Mari, Assyria, Israel", in M. Nissinen (ed.), Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives (Society of Biblical Literature. Symposium Series, 13; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000) 47-70.

Huffmon, H. B., "Prophecy in the Mari Texts as an Innovative Development", in A. Archi (ed.) in collaboration with A. Bramanti, Tradition and Innovation in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 57th Rencontre Assyriologique International at Rome, 4-8 July 2011 (Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, 57; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015) 205-213.

Jacquet, A., "La divination", in J.-Cl. Margueron – J.-M. Durand – D. Charpin – L. Marti – H. Reculeau – A. Jacquet – G. Chambon, "Tel Hariri / Mari", DBSup 14 [fasc. 77-78, 2008] 371-379 [17-456].

Jeremias, J., "Das Proprium der alttestamentlichen Prophetie", TLZ 119 (1994) 483-494. Reprinted [same title] in J. Jeremias, Hosea und Amos. Studien zu den Anfängen des Dodekapropheton (FAT 13; Tübingen: Mohr [Siebeck], 1996) 20-33. [comparison of prophecy in Mari and in Israel]

Lemaire, A., "Les textes prophétiques de Mari dans leurs relations avec l'Ouest", in J.-M. Durand (ed.), Amurru 1: Mari, Ébla et les Hourrites. Dix ans de travaux. Premiére partie. Actes du Colloque International (Paris, mai 1993) (Paris: Éditions Recherches sur les Civilisations, 1996) 427-438.

Lynch, M. J., "The Prophet's šārtum u sissiktum 'Hair and Hem' and the Mantic Context of Prophetic Oracles at Mari", JANER 13 (2013) 11-29.

Malamat, A., Mari and the Bible (Studies in the History and Culture of the Ancient Near East, 12; Leiden: Brill, 1998).

Malamat, A., "Addendum to Luigi Cagni's Collection of Mari Prophecies", in S. Graziani (ed.), Studi sul Vicino Oriente Antico dedicati alla memoria di Luigi Cagni. Vol. 2 (Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, 2000) 631-634.

Roberts, J. J. M., "The Mari Prophetic Texts in Transliteration and English Translation", in J. J. M. Roberts, The Bible and the Ancient Near East: Collected Essays (Sources for Biblical and Theological Study, 11; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2002) 157-253.

Rodríguez, A. F., "Mari Letters and Biblical Prophetism: Similarities and Differences – Part I and Part II", Theologika [Lima, Peru] 19/1 and 19/2 (2019) 32-44 and 18-34.

Rovira, L., "'Dime cómo y qué profetizas y te diré quién eres'. Addu, sus profetas y la posible relación con los ex-votos dados (Mari, siglo XVIII a. C.)", Studi e materiali di Storia delle Religioni 80 (2014) 727-741.

Sánchez Abarrio, J. A., "La acción misericordiosa de Dios en los textos proféticos de Mari", Scriptorium Victoriense 63 (2016) 255-298.

Sasson, J. M., From the Mari Archives: An Anthology of Old Babylonian Letters (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015): see esp. Chap. 5 "Religion" (235-293).

Stewart, W. R., "The Death of the Prophet? A Comparative Study of Prophetic Signs in the Royal Archives of Mari, Syria (ARM 26/1.206) and the Hebrew Bible (Jeremiah 19:1-13)", in J. Unsok Ro – B. D. Giffone (eds.), Inscribe It in a Book: Scribal Practice, Cultural Memory, and the Making of the Hebrew Scriptures (FAT II/139; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022) 35-66.

Stökl, J., "The Role of Women in the Prophetical Process in Mari: A Critique of Mary Keller's Theory of Agency", in M. Augustin – H. M. Niemann (eds.), Thinking Towards New Horizons: Collected Communications to the XIXth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Ljubljana 2007 (BEATAJ 55; Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2008) 173-188. [see here for Mary Keller's work]

Stökl, J., Prophecy in the Ancient Near East: A Philological and Sociological Comparison (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 56; Leiden, Brill, 2012) 29-100.

Stökl, J., "Die Seher aus dem Osten: Propheten in Mesopotamien", Welt und Umwelt der Bibel 69 (2013/3) 6-11.

Stökl, J., "A Royal Advisory Service: Prophecy and the State in Mesopotamia", in C. A. Rollston (ed.), Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns – Penn State University Press, 2018) 87-114.

Toorn, K. van der, "Old Babylonian Prophecy between the Oral and the Written", JNSL 24 (1998) 55-70.

Toorn, K. van der, "From the Oral to the Written: The Case of Old Babylonian Prophecy", in E. Ben Zvi – M. H. Floyd (eds.), Writings and Speech in Israelite and Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (SBLSymS 10; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000) 219-234. Reprinted with slight revisions as "From Oral Performance to Written Prophecy" in K. van der Toorn, God in Context. Selected Essays on Society and Religion in the Early Middle East (FAT 123; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018) 157-169.

6.    Neo-Assyrian prophecy      [top of page]

Atkinson, J., "Prophecy in K1285? Re-evaluating the Divine Speech Episodes of Nabû", in R. P. Gordon – H. Barstad (eds.), "Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela": Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013) 59-90.

Bonnet, C. – P. Merlo, "Royal Prophecy in the Old Testament and in the Ancient Near East: Methodological Problems and Examples", SEL 19 (2002) 77-86.

Esztári, R. – Á. Vér, "The Voices of Ištar: Prophetesses and Female Ecstatics in the Neo-Assyrian Empire", in G. G. Xeravits (eds), Religion and Female Body in Ancient Judaism and Its Environments (DCLS 28; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015) 3-39.

Gordon, R. P., "Prophecy in the Mari and Nineveh Archives", in R. P. Gordon – H. Barstad (eds.), "Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela": Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013) 37-58.

Hilber, J. W., , Cultic Prophecy in the Psalms (BZAW 352; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2005), espec. 40-75 [= Chap. 2: "Assyrian Cultic Prophecy"].

Jong, M. J. de, Isaiah among the Ancient Near Eastern Prophets. A Comparative Study of the Earliest Stages of the Isaiah Tradition and the Neo-Assyrian Prophecies (VTSup 117; Leiden: Brill, 2007).

Marti, L., "La population prophétique à la cour des Sargonides", in J.-M. Durand – T. Römer – M. Bürki (eds.), Comment devient-on prophète? Actes du colloque organisé par le Collège de France, Paris, les 4-5 avril 2011 (OBO 265; Fribourg: Academic Press; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014) 51-60.

Merlo, P., "Profezia neoassira e oracoli di salvezza biblici. Motivazioni, forme e contenuti di un possibile confronto", RivB 50 (2002) 129-152.

Nissinen, M., "Die Relevanz der neuassyrischen Prophetie für die alttestamentliche Forschung", in M. Dietrich – O. Loretz (eds.), Mesopotamica – Ugaritica – Biblica. Festschrift für Kurt Bergerhof zur Vollendung seines 70. Lebensjahres am 7. Mai 1992 (AOAT 232; Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker – Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1993) 217-258. Reprinted in M. Nissinen, Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (BZAW 494; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019) 315-350.

Nissinen, M., References to Prophecy in Neo-Assyrian Sources (State Archives of Assyria Studies, 7; Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1998). (online here)

Nissinen, M., "Religious Texts as a Historical Source: Assyrian Prophecies as Sources for Esarhaddon's Nineveh A Inscription", in G. B. Lanfranchi – R. Mattila – R. Rollinger (eds.), Writing Neo-Assyrian History: Sources, Problems, and Approaches (State Archives of Assyria Studies, 29 – Publications of the Foundation for Finnish Assyriological Research, 23; University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns – Penn State University Press [distributed by Penn State University Press for the Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project], 2019) 183-193.

Nissinen, M., "The Socioreligious Role of the Neo-Assyrian Prophets", in M. Nissinen (ed.), Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives (Society of Biblical Literature. Symposium Series, 13; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000) 89-114. Reprinted in M. Nissinen, Prophetic Divination: Essays in Ancient Near Eastern Prophecy (BZAW 494; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019) 103-126.

Parpola, S., Assyrian Prophecies. Illustrations edited by J. Reade and S. Parpola. (State Archives of Assyria, 9. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 1997). (online here)

Schaper, J., "Prophecy in Israel and Assyria: Are We Comparing Apples and Pears? The Materiality of Writing and the Avoidance of Parallelomania", in R. P. Gordon – H. Barstad (eds.), "Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela": Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013) 225-238.

Stökl, J., "Ištar's Women, YHWH's Men? A Curious Gender-Bias in Neo-Assyrian and Biblical Prophecy", ZAW 121 (2009) 87-100.

Stökl, J., Prophecy in the Ancient Near East: A Philological and Sociological Comparison (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, 56; Leiden, Brill, 2012) 103-152.

Stökl, J., "Die Seher aus dem Osten: Propheten in Mesopotamien", Welt und Umwelt der Bibel 69 (2013/3) 6-11.

Stökl, J., "'I Have Rained Stones and Fiery Glow on Their Heads!' Celestial and Meteorological Prophecy in the Neo-Assyrian Empire", in R. P. Gordon – H. Barstad (eds.), "Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela": Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013) 239-251.

Stökl, J., "A Royal Advisory Service: Prophecy and the State in Mesopotamia", in C. A. Rollston (ed.), Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns – Penn State University Press, 2018) 87-114.

Tiemeyer, L.-S., "Were the Neo-Assyrian Prophets Intercessors? A Comparative Study of Neo-Assyrian and Hebrew Texts", in R. P. Gordon – H. Barstad (eds.), "Thus Speaks Ishtar of Arbela": Prophecy in Israel, Assyria, and Egypt in the Neo-Assyrian Period (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2013) 253-272.

Toorn, K. van der, "Mesopotamian Prophecy between Immanence and Transcendence: A Comparison of Old Babylonian and Neo-Assyrian Prophecy", in M. Nissinen (ed.), Prophecy in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context: Mesopotamian, Biblical, and Arabian Perspectives (Society of Biblical Literature. Symposium Series, 13; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000) 71-87.

Villard, P., "Les prophéties à l'époque néo-assyrienne", in A. Lemaire (ed.), Prophètes et rois: Bible et Proche-Orient (Lectio Divina hors série; Paris: Cerf, 2001) 55-84.

Weippert, M., "Assyrische Prophetien der Zeit Asarhaddons und Assurbanipals", in F. M. Fales (ed.), Assyrian Royal Inscriptions. New Horizons in Literary, Ideological and Historical Analysis. Papers of a Symposium held at Cetona (Siena), June 26-28, 1980 (Orientis Antiqui Collectio, 17; Roma: Istituto per l'Oriente, 1981) 71-115. Reprinted in M. Weippert, Götterwort in Menschenmund: Studien zur Prophetie in Assyrien, Israel und Juda (FRLANT 252; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014) 9-47.

Weippert, M., "'König, fürchte dich nicht!' Assyrische Prophetie im 7. Jahrhundert v. Chr", Or N.S. 71 (2002) 1-54. Reprinted in M. Weippert, Götterwort in Menschenmund: Studien zur Prophetie in Assyrien, Israel und Juda (FRLANT 252; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014) 159-206.

Weippert, M., Götterwort in Menschenmund: Studien zur Prophetie in Assyrien, Israel und Juda (FRLANT 252; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014).

Weippert, M., "Anhang: Die neuassyrischen Prophetensprüche in Übersetzung", in M. Weippert, Götterwort in Menschenmund: Studien zur Prophetie in Assyrien, Israel und Juda (FRLANT 252; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014) 207-226.

7.    Prophecy in the Syro-Palestinian area in general      [top of page]

Lemaire, A., "Oracles, propagande et littérature dans les royaumes araméens et transjordaniens. (IXe - VIIIe s. av. n.è)", in J.-G. Heintz (ed.), Oracles et Prophéties dans l'Antiquité. Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 15-17 Juin 1995 (Université des sciences humaines de Strasbourg. Travaux du Centre de Recherche sur le Proche-Orient et la Grèce Antiques, 15; Paris: De Boccard, 1997) 171-193.

Lemaire, A., "Prophètes et rois dans les inscriptions ouest-sémitiques (ixe-vie siècle av. J.C.)", in A. Lemaire (ed.), Prophètes et rois: Bible et Proche-Orient (Lectio Divina hors série; Paris: Cerf, 2001) 85-115.

8.    Prophecy at Emar?      [top of page]

Arnaud, D., Recherches au pays d'Aštata: Emar VI/4. Textes de la bibliothèque: transcriptions et traductions (Mission Archéologique de Meskéné-Emar; Paris: Éditions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1987).

Fleming, D. E., "The Etymological Origins of the Hebrew nābî’: The One Who Invokes God", CBQ 55 (1993) 217-224.

Fleming, D., "Nābû and Munabbiātu: Two New Syrian Religious Personnel", Journal of the American Oriental Society 113 (1993) 175-183.

Fleming, D. E., "Writing as Administrative Option: The Diviner of the Gods at Late Bronze Age Emar", in A. Jördens – U. Yiftach (eds.), Accounts and Bookkeeping in the Ancient World (Legal Documents in Ancient Societies, 8 – Philippika 55,2; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020) 26-35.

Huehnergard, J., "On the Etymology and Meaning of Hebrew Nâbi’ ", in B. A. Levine et al. (eds.), Frank Moore Cross Volume (Eretz-Israel 26; Jerusalem: The Israel Exploration Society, 1999) 88*-93*.

Margueron, J.-C., "Emar", ABD II (1992) 488-490.

Tsukimoto, A., "Emar and the Old Testament – Preliminary Remarks", AJBI 15 (1989) 3-24.

9.    Prophecy at Ugarit?      [top of page]

Wyatt, N., "Word of Tree and Whisper of Stone: El's Oracle to King Keret (Kirta), and the Problem of the Mechanics of its Utterance", VT 57 (2007) 483-510. Reprinted in N. Wyatt, Word of Tree and Whisper of Stone: And Other Papers on Ugaritian Thought (Gorgias Ugaritic Studies, 1; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2007) 167-192.

10.    Byblos and Phoenicia in general      [top of page]

Betrò, M. C. (a cura di), Racconti di viaggio e di avventura dell'antico Egitto (Testi del Vicino Oriente Antico I/1; Brescia: Paideia, 1990) 59-73.

Cody, A., "The Phoenician Ecstatic in Wenamūn: A Professional Oracular Medium", The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 65 (1979) 99-106.

Nibbi, A., Ancient Byblos Reconsidered (Oxford: DE Publications, 1985).

Nibbi, A., "Byblos (sic) and Wenamun: A Reply to Some Recent Unrealistic Criticism", Discussions in Egyptology 11 (1988) 31-42.

Nutkowicz, H., "Quelques notes sur l'image du prophétisme phénicien dans les récits bibliques: rites et symboles", in A. Lemaire (ed.), Phéniciens d'Orient et d'Occident: Mélanges Josette Elayi. Avec la collaboration de B. Dufour et F. Pfitzmann (Cahiers de l'Institut du Proche-Orient ancien du Collège de France, 2; Paris: Maisonneuve, 2014) 51-61.

Sass, B., "Wenamun and His Levant – 1075 BC or 925 BC?", Ägypten und Levante / Egypt and the Levant 12 (2002) 247-255.

Schipper, B. U., Die Erzählung des Wenamun: Ein Literaturwerk im Spannungsfeld von Politik, Geschichte und Religion (OBO 209; Fribourg: Academic Press; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005).

Vandersleyen, C., Le rapport d'Ounamon (vers 1065 avant Jésus-Christ): analyse d'une mission manquée (Connaissance de l'Égypte ancienne, 15; Bruxelles: Safran, 2013).

Winand, J., "The Report of Wenamun: A Journey in Ancient Egyptian Literature", in M. Collier – S. Snape (eds.), with the assistance of G. Criscenzo-Laycock and C. Price, Ramesside Studies in Honour of K. A. Kitchen (Bolton: Rutherford Press, 2011) 541-559.

11.     Ḥamath      [top of page]

Buhl, M.-L., "Hamath", ABD III (1992) 33-36.

Hafthorsson [Hafþorsson], S., A Passing Power: An Examination of the Sources for the History of Aram-Damascus in the Second Half of the Ninth Century B.C. (CBOT 54; Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2006) 65-66.

Lemaire, A., "Oracles, propagande et littérature dans les royaumes araméens et transjordaniens. (IXe - VIIIe s. av. n.è)", in J.-G. Heintz (ed.), Oracles et Prophéties dans l'Antiquité. Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 15-17 Juin 1995 (Université des sciences humaines de Strasbourg. Travaux du Centre de Recherche sur le Proche-Orient et la Grèce Antiques, 15; Paris: De Boccard, 1997) 172-175 [171-193].

Lemaire, A., "Prophètes et rois dans les inscriptions ouest-sémitiques (ixe-vie siècle av. J.C.)", in A. Lemaire (ed.), Prophètes et rois: Bible et Proche-Orient (Lectio Divina hors série; Paris: Cerf, 2001) 93-96 [85-115].

Ross, J. F., "Prophecy in Hamath, Israel, and Mari", HTR 63 (1970) 1-28.

Sader, H., "Prophecy in Syria: Zakkur of Hamath and Lu‘ash", in C. A. Rollston (ed.), Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns – Penn State University Press, 2018) 115-134.

12.    Deir ʿAllā      [top of page]

Blum, E., "Die Kombination I der Wandinschrift vom Tell Deir ʿAllā: Vorschläge zur Rekonstruktion mit historisch-kritischen Anmerkungen”, in I. Kottsieper – R. Schmitt – J. Wöhrle (eds.), Berührungspunkte: Studien zur Sozial- und Religionsgeschichte Israels und seiner Umwelt. Festschrift für Rainer Albertz zu seinem 65. Geburtstag (AOAT 350; Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2008) 573-601.

Blum, E., "Die altaramäischen Wandinschriften vom Tell Deir ʿAllā und ihr institutioneller Kontext", in F.-E. Focken – M. R. Ott (eds.), Metatexte. Erzählungen von schrifttragenden Artefakten in der alttestamentlichen und mittelalterlichen Literatur (Materiale Textkulturen. Schriftenreihe des Sonderforschungsbereichs 933, Band 15; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016) 21-52.

Burnett, J. S., "Prophecy in Transjordan: Balaam Son of Beor", in C. A. Rollston (ed.), Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns – Penn State University Press, 2018) 135-204.

Cook, E. M., "The Balaam Text from Tell Deir ʿAllā", in R. Bauckham – J. R. Davila – A. Panayotov (eds.), Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Volume 1 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013) 236-243.

Dijkstra, M., "Is Balaam Also among the Prophets?", JBL 114 (1995) 43-64.

Hackett, J. A., "Deir ʿAlla, Tell: Texts", ABD II (1992) 129-130.

Hoftijzer, J. – G. van der Kooij (eds.), Aramaic Texts from Deir ʿAlla. With contributions by H. J. Franken, V. R. Mehra, J. Voskuil, J. A. Mosk. Preface by P. A. H. De Boer (Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui, 19; Leiden: Brill, 1976).

Hoftijzer, J. – G. van der Kooij (eds.), The Balaam Text from Deir ʿAlla Re-Evaluated. Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Leiden 21-24 August 1989 (Leiden: Brill, 1991).

Lemaire, A., "Oracles, propagande et littérature dans les royaumes araméens et transjordaniens. (IXe - VIIIe s. av. n.è)", in J.-G. Heintz (ed.), Oracles et Prophéties dans l'Antiquité. Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 15-17 Juin 1995 (Université des sciences humaines de Strasbourg. Travaux du Centre de Recherche sur le Proche-Orient et la Grèce Antiques, 15; Paris: De Boccard, 1997) 188-193 [171-193].

Lemaire, A., "Prophètes et rois dans les inscriptions ouest-sémitiques (ixe-vie siècle av. J.C.)", in A. Lemaire (ed.), Prophètes et rois: Bible et Proche-Orient (Lectio Divina hors série; Paris: Cerf, 2001) 96-101 [85-115].

Lipiński, E., "The Plaster Inscription from Deir ʿAllā", in E. Lipiński, Studies in Aramaic Inscriptions and Onomastics, II (OLA 57; Leuven: Peeters, 1994) 103-170.

Müller, H.-P., "Die aramäische Inschrift von Deir ʿAllā und die älteren Bileamsprüche", ZAW 94 (1982) 214-244.

Puech, E., "L'inscription de Deir Alla", Le Monde de la Bible 46 (nov.-déc. 1986) 36-37.

Puech, E., "Balaam and Deir Alla", in G. H. van Kooten (ed.), The Prestige of the Pagan Prophet Balaam in Judaism, Early Christianity and Islam (Themes in Biblical Narrative: Jewish and Christian Traditions, 11; Leiden: Brill, 2008) 25-47.

Robker, J. M., Balaam in Text and Tradition (FAT 131; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019). See esp. Chapter 5: "An Inscription from Deir ʿAlla. Balaam in Transjordan", 271-305.

Schüle, A., "Balaam from Deir Allā: a peripheral Aramean?", in A. Berlejung – A. M. Maeir – A. Schüle (eds.), Wandering Arameans. Arameans Outside Syria: Textual and Archaeological Perspectives (Leipziger altorientalistische Studien, 5; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017) 69-80.

Seebass, H., "Exkurs: Zum Bileam-Text von tell dēr ʿallā", in H. Seebass, Numeri. Bd. 3 (BKAT IV/3, Lief. 1; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 2004) 55-59.

Steiner, M. L. – B. Wagemakers, Digging up the Bible? The Excavations at Tell Deir Alla (1960-1967) (Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2019).

Sweeney, M. A., "Balaam in Intertextual Perspective", in I. Shai – J. R. Chadwick – L. Hitchcock – A. Dagan – C. McKinny – J. Uziel (eds.), Tell It in Gath: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Israel. Essays in Honor of Aren M. Maeir on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday (ÄAT 90; Münster: Zaphon, 2018) 534-548.

APPENDIX:    Translations of the main texts      [top of page]

This appendix includes only those translations that are found in the sources listed in the following abbreviations. Other translations of some of the relevant texts can be found in various studies mentioned in the foregoing sections of this bibliography.

Abbreviations for the sources of translations

ANET
Pritchard, J. B. (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts relating to the Old Testament (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 31969).
COS
Hallo, W. W. – K. L. Younger (eds.), The Context of Scripture. Vol. 1: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World. Vol. 2: Monumental Inscriptions from the Biblical World. Vol. 3: Archival Documents from the Biblical World (Leiden: Brill, 1997 / 2000 / 2002).
DBSup 8
Ramlot, L., "Prophétisme", DBSup 8 (1972) 811-1222.
GC
García Cordero, M., La Biblia y el legado del Antiguo Oriente (BAC 390; Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1977).
Lemaire
Lemaire, A., "Oracles, propagande et littérature dans les royaumes araméens et transjordaniens. (IXe - VIIIe s. av. n.è)", in J.-G. Heintz (ed.), Oracles et Prophéties dans l'Antiquité. Actes du Colloque de Strasbourg, 15-17 Juin 1995 (Université des sciences humaines de Strasbourg. Travaux du Centre de Recherche sur le Proche-Orient et la Grèce Antiques, 15; Paris: De Boccard, 1997) 171-193.
Nissinen
Nissinen, M. (ed.), Prophets and Prophecy in the Ancient Near East. In collaboration with C. L. Seow, R. K. Ritner, and P. Machinist. (Writings from the Ancient World, 12; Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003).
RTAT
Beyerlin, W. (Hrsg.), Religionsgeschichtliches Textbuch zum AT (ATD.E1; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1975, 21985): = Near Eastern Religious Texts relating to the OT (OTL; London: SCM, 1978): = Testi religiosi per lo studio dell'Antico Testamento (Brescia: Paideia, 1992).
Testa
Testa, E. – B. Marconcini, Profetismo, profeti e apocalittica (Il Messaggio della Salvezza, 4; Leumann [Torino]: Elledici, 51985).
TUAT
Kaiser, O. (Hrsg.), Texte aus der Umwelt des AT (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1981-1997). [further details]
TVOA
Sacchi, P. (a cura di), Testi del Vicino Oriente antico (Brescia: Paideia, 1990–).

1.      From the Mesopotamian area

Mari

ANET 623-625.629-632; DBSup 8, 884-896; GC 573-575; Nissinen 13-77 (the main prophetic messages) and 79-91 (other references to prophets); RTAT 146-152 (ital. 169-177); Testa 139-145; TUAT 2:83-93; TVOA 2/2 (Le profezie di Mari, a cura di L. Cagni, 1995).

Neo-Assyrian prophecy

ANET 449-452.604-607; DBSup 8, 881; GC 571-573; Nissinen 97-132 (texts of oracular genre) and 133-177 (texts of other genres); Testa 138-139; TUAT 2:56-65.

2.      From the Syro-Palestinian area

Byblos (the Egyptian text of Wen-Amun)

ANET 25-29; COS 1.41:89-93; DBSup 8, 902-904; GC 576-577; Nissinen 219-220 (R. K. Ritner); Testa 133-134; TUAT 3:912-921; TVOA 1/1 (Racconti di viaggio e di avventura dell'antico Egitto, a cura di M. C. Betrò, 1990) 59-73.

Hamath

ANET 655-656; COS 2.35:155; DBSup 8, 900-902; GC 503-504.576; Lemaire 172-175; Nissinen 203-207 (C. L. Seow); RTAT 247-250 (ital. 295-299); Testa 134; TUAT 1:626-628.

Deir ʿAllā

COS 2.27:140-145; Lemaire 188-193; Nissinen 207-212 (C. L. Seow); TUAT 2:138-148.