Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament

’The first major collection of cuneiform texts in English’ Despite its age, this volume still has a major contribution to make. Unlike other collections, Rogers’s volume includes the transliterated Akkadian for each text. This provides an invaluable access to the original texts without having a library that includes every volume of the original publications. A further asset is the collection of forty-eight excellent photographs and line-drawings. Included here are tablets, prisms, cylinders, seals, boundary stones, and bas reliefs. The bibliography is composed of two parts. The first includes the entries from Rogers’s List of Books Quoted or Mentioned, but with numerous corrections and supplying much missing data. The second part is an updated list, organized by major cuneiform languages: Diverse Collections, Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Hurrian, Eblaite, and Ugaritic. This will direct the reader to the wealth of primary documents that is now our privilege to read.

Robert William Rogers (1864-1930) was a renowned Semitist. His dissertation from the University of Leipzig was published as ’Outlines of the History of Early Babylonia’ (1895). He was appointed Professor of Exegetical Theology at Drew Theological Seminary in 1893 and remained there until his death. His other major works include ’A History of Babylonia and Assyria, ’ ’The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, ’ and ’A History of Ancient Persia