William W. Hallo is the William M. Laffan Professor of Assyriology
and Babylonian Literature and Curator of the Babylonian Collection
at Yale University. He holds degrees from Harvard, Leiden, and
Chicago. He is author or co-author of The Ancient Near East: a
History (1998, 1971), Origins (1997), The Book of the People
(1991), Scripture in Context (4 vols. 1980-1991), Heritage:
Civilization and the Jews (2 vols. 1984), The Tablets of Ebla
(1984), Sumerian Archival Texts (1973), The Exaltation of Inanna
(1968), and Early Mesopotamian Royal Titles (1957).
K. Lawson Younger, Jr. is Professor of Old Testament, Semitic
Languages and Ancient Near Eastern History at Trinity International
University - Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. He earned his
Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield in 1988. He is the author of
Ancient Conquest Accounts: A Study of Ancient Near Eastern and
Biblical History Writing (1990), as well as numerous scholarly
articles and reviews.
'All students and scholars of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near
East will be grateful for this impressive and authoritative work.
It is wonderful to have so much of ancient Near Eastern literature
in one collection, translated by the best scholars in the
field.'
Ronald S. Hendel, Bible Review, 1998.
'…this volume will prove an indispensable tool for all who seek to
intepret the Old Testament within its cultural and linguistic
environment.'
Daniel L. Block, Review and Expositor.
'…the three volumes in COS will be reliable and frequently used
companions of Old Testament scholars in the next fifty years.
Biblical commentaries and journal articles will regularly refer to
them.'
Ralph W. Klein, Currents, 2001.
`…an up-to-date and indispensable collection of Near Eastern
literature.’
William M. Schniedewind, Religious Studies Review, 2001.
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