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    <title>Bible and the ancient Near East</title>
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    <namePart>(George Ernest)</namePart>
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    <publisher>Doubleday</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1961</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1961</dateIssued>
    <edition>[1st ed.].</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>409 p. : illus., port. ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Modern study of Old Testament literature / John Bright -- Biblical history in transition / George E. Mendenhall -- The Hebrew language in its northwest semitic backgroung / William J. Moran -- The archaeology of Palestine / G. Ernest Wright -- The textual criticism of the Old Testament / Harry M. Orlinsky -- The development of the Jewish scripts / Frank M. Cross -- The chronology of Israel and the ancient Near East : Old Testament chronology / David Noel Freedman -- The ancient Near East : chronological bibliography and charts / Edward F. Campbell -- South Arabian history and archaeology / Gus W. Van Beek -- Sumerian literature, a general survey / Samuel Noah Kramer -- Formative tendencies in Sumerian religion / Thorkild Jacobsen -- Egypt : its language and literature / Thomas O. Lambdin -- Egyptian culture and religion / John A. Wilson -- Hittite and anatolian studies / Albrecht Goetze -- Appendix I : the role of the Canaanites in the history of civilization / W.F. Albright -- Appendix II : bibliography of W.F. Albright.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">essays in honor of William Foxwell Albright.</note>
  <note>"Bibliography of W. F. Albright" : p. [363]-380.  Includes bibliographical references.</note>
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      <namePart type="date">1891-1971</namePart>
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    <topic>Religions</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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    <geographic>Middle East</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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