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Old Testament and Related Worlds: Literature

Library resources for the study of the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East.

Aramaic language literature

Syriac literature

A Corpus of Syriac Incantation Bowls by Marco Moriggi
Online.
The Syriac Vita Tradition of Ephrem the Syrian by J. P. Amar
Call Number: DIV BR60 .C677 t.242 v.1 c.1

Introduction

This page contains resources for all of the literature that was produced in the Ancient Near East, be it narrative, letters, or poetic.

Most of the resources contain English resources, but some are translations into other Western languages, or are collections of texts that are not translated (and are meant for the practice of language).

Akkadian literature

As you can see reflected in the book titles below, there is an incredible wealth of Akkadian literature covering all kinds of aspects.

Mesopotamian Divination Texts by Ulla Susanne Koch
Call Number: DIV PJ3791 .K634 2015
The Flood: the Akkadian Sources by Wasserman N.
Call Number: DIV BL325.D4 W37 2020
Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts by Markham J. Geller; Strahil V. Panayotov
Online.
Everything you'd ever want to know about eye diseases in Mesopotamia!
Nuzi Texts and Their Uses As Historical Evidence by Maynard Paul Maidman; Ann K. Guinan (Editor)
Online.
The el-Amarna Correspondence (2 Vol. Set) by Anson F. Rainey; William M. Schniedewind (Editor); Zipora Cochavi-Rainey (Editor)
Online.

Arabic literature

Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations by Barbara Roggema (Volume Editor); Alexander Treiger (Volume Editor)
Online.
Revelation 1-3 in Christian Arabic Commentary by Stephen J. Davis (Editor); T. C. Schmidt (Editor); Shawqi Talia (Editor); Būlus al-Būshī; Ibn Kātib Qayṣar
Online.
Critique of Christian Origins by Abd Abd al-Jabbar; Gabriel Said Reynolds (Translator); Samir Khalil Samir (Translator)
Call Number: DIV BP172 .A173 2010

Ugaritic literature

Ugaritic Narrative Poetry by Simon B. Parker (Editor, Translator); Mark S. Smith (Translator); Edward L. Greenstein (Translator); Theodore J. Lewis (Translator); David Marcus (Translator)
Online.
Ugaritic Economic Tablets by Kevin M. McGeough; Mark S. Smith
At LSC.
The Ugaritic Poem of AQHT by Baruch Margalit
Call Number: DIV BS410 .B454 v.182 c.1
The Ugaritic Baal Cycle by Mark Smith
Call Number: DIV BS410 .S877 v.55

Ethiopic literature

The lives of Mabâ' Sĕyôn and Gabra Krĕstôs. The Ethiopic texts ed. with an English translation and a chapter on the illustrations of Ethiopic mss. by E. A. Wallis Budge
Online.
The Kebra Negast by Gerald Hausman
Call Number: BL2532.R37 K43 1997
English translation of the "Glory of the Kings."
A New Reading of the Animal Apocalypse of 1 Enoch by Daniel Olson
Online.
This is an English translation of the Ethiopic version of the Animal Apocalypse which came, via Greek, from the Aramaic original. The Ethiopic text is now the only existing full-length version of this text.