Texts from the environment of the Old Testament

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Texts from the Environment of the Old Testament (abbreviation TUAT ) is a series published by Otto Kaiser , Bernd Janowski , Gernot Wilhelm and Daniel Schwemer, which makes important texts of the ancient oriental cultures - partly for the first time - accessible in German translation. These texts are re-translated from the original text by experts and researchers of the respective cultures and languages, arranged in their historical context and commented on in detail.

Languages ​​taken into account

Relevant texts in the following ancient oriental languages are taken into account :

Old sequence TUAT

The structure of the old series published in 18 deliveries and three volumes from 1982 to 1997, edited by Otto Kaiser:

  • Volume I - legal and economic documents - historical-chronological texts
    • 1 law books (Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite)
    • 2 international treaties (Akkadian, Hittite, Assyrian, Aramaic)
    • 3 Law and Economics (Sumerian, Hittite, Ugaritic, Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Punic, Old South Arabic)
    • 4 Historical Texts I (Sumerian, Akkadian)
    • 5 Historical Texts II (Hittite, Ugarite)
    • 6 Historical Texts III (Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Phoenician, Moabite, Old South Arabic)
  • Volume II - Religious Texts
    • 1 interpretations of the future (Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Egyptian, Aramaic, Old South Arabic)
    • 2 rituals I (Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite)
    • 3 rituals II (Ugaritic, Egyptian, Aramaic, Phoenician, Old South Arabic)
    • 4 votive inscriptions (Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Egyptian, Aramaic, Phoenician, Punic, Old South Arabic)
    • 5 songs and prayers I (Sumerian, Akkadian)
    • 6 songs and prayers II (Hittite, Ugaritic, Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic)
  • Volume III - Wisdom Texts, Myths, Epics
    • 1 wisdom texts I (Sumerian, Akkadian)
    • 2 wisdom texts II (Egyptian, Aramaic)
    • 3 Myths and Epics I (Sumerian)
    • 4 Myths and Epics II (Akkadian, Hittite)
    • 5 Myths and Epics III (Egyptian)
    • 6 Myths and Epics IV (Ugaritic)

New episode TUAT

2004–2015 the New Series of Texts from the Environment of the Old Testament (Vol. 1–8), edited by Bernd Janowski and Gernot Wilhelm, from Volume 5 by Bernd Janowski and Daniel Schwemer.

  • TUAT New Volume 1 - Texts on legal and economic life
    • 1 Mesopotamian texts (Sumerian, Akkadian)
    • 2 Old Syrian texts (Ugarit, Alalach, Emar)
    • 3 Egyptian texts
    • 4 Elamite texts from Iran
    • 5 Hebrew, Aramaic and Phoenician texts
    • 6 Sabaean (Old South Arabic) texts
    • 7 Greek texts from Egypt
  • TUAT New Volume 2 - State Treaties, Inscriptions and Other Documents on Political History
    • 1 Mesopotamian texts (Sumerian, Akkadian, Hurrian)
    • 2 Hittite texts
    • 3 Old Syrian texts (Ugarit, Alalach)
    • 4 Egyptian texts
    • 5 texts from Iran (Elamite, Old Persian, Sassanid)
    • 6 Northwest Semitic texts (Ja'udic, Old Aramaic, Nabatean, Hatran, Palmyrenic; Phoenician, Ammonite)
    • 7 Sabaean (Old South Arabic) texts
    • 8 Greek texts from Egypt
  • TUAT New Episode Volume 3 - Letters
    • 1 Mesopotamian letters (Sumerian, Old Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Mari, Nuzi)
    • 2 diplomatic correspondence from the Late Bronze Age (letters from Amarna, Taanach, Hattuša, Ugarit)
    • 3 letters from Syria (Ugarit) (Akkadian, Ugaritic)
    • 4 Egyptian letters
    • 5 letters from Iran (Elamite)
    • 6 Hebrew, Transjordan and Aramaic letters
    • 7 Sabaean letters
    • 8 Greek letters from Egypt
  • TUAT New Episode Volume 4 - Omina, Oracle, Rituals and Incantations
    • 1 texts from Mesopotamia (Sumerian, Old Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian)
    • 2 texts of the Hittites (Hittite, Luwian)
    • 3 texts from Syria (Akkadian [Emar], Ugaritic)
    • 4 texts from Egypt
    • 5 texts from Iran (Elamite, Persian)
    • 6 Sabaean (Old South Arabic) texts
    • 7 Greek texts from Egypt
  • TUAT New Series Volume 5 - Texts on Medicine
    • 1 texts from Mesopotamia (Sumerian, Akkadian)
    • 2 texts of the Hittites (Hittite)
    • 3 texts from Syria (Ugaritic)
    • 4 texts from Egypt (with an introduction to the ancient Egyptian medicine by W. Westendorf)
    • 5 Greek texts from Egypt
  • TUAT New Volume 6 - Grave, coffin, building and votive inscriptions
    • 1 texts from Mesopotamia (Sumerian, Akkadian)
    • 2 texts of the Hittites (Hittite, Luwian)
    • 3 texts from Syria (Emar, Ugarit) (Akkadian, Ugaritic)
    • 4 texts from Egypt
    • 5 texts from Iran (Elamite, Old and Middle Persian)
    • 6 Phoenician and Hebrew texts
    • 7 Sam'ali and (other) Aramaic texts
    • 8 Sabaean (Old South Arabic) texts
    • 9 Greek texts from Egypt
  • TUAT New Episode Volume 7 - Hymns, Lamentations and Prayers
    • 1 texts from Mesopotamia (Sumerian, Akkadian)
    • 2 texts of the Hittites (Hittite)
    • 3 texts from Syria (Ugaritic)
    • 4 texts from Egypt (Egyptian)
    • 5 Greek Texts from Egypt (Greek)
  • TUAT New Volume 8 - Wisdom Texts, Myths and Epics
    • 1 texts from Mesopotamia (Sumerian, Akkadian)
    • 2 texts of the Hittites (Hittite)
    • 3 texts from Syria (Ugaritic)
    • 4 texts from Egypt (New Egyptian, demotic)
    • 5 texts from Iran (Middle Persian)
    • 6 texts from Transjordan (Aramaic: Deir 'Alla)
    • 7 Greek Texts from Egypt (Greek)

The ninth volume is currently being planned: TUAT New Volume 9 - Knowledge Culture .

Editor and collaborator

In the order of their first contributions, the staff and co-editors of the Old Series are the ancient orientalists and Egyptologists Rykle Borger , Heiner Lutzmann, Willem HP Römer , Einar von Schuler , Manfried Dietrich , Elmar Edel , Oswald Loretz , Otto Rössler , Diethelm Conrad , Wilhelmus C. . Delsman , Otto Kaiser , Ursula Kaplony-Heckel , Walter W. Müller , Walther Hinz , Hans Martin Kümmel , Heinrich Otten , Ernst Kausen , Karl Hecker , Jacob Hoftijzer, Frank Kammerzell , Heike Sternberg-el Hotabi , Walter Farber, Christel Butterweck, Wilfried Gutekunst, Hans-Peter Müller, Boyo Ockinga, Hans P. Roschinski, Jan Assmann , Ahmet Ünal , Jan Wim Wesselius, Wolfram von Soden , Günter Burkard , Ingo Kottsieper, Irene Shirun-Grumach , Heinz J. Thissen, Dietz-Otto Edzard , WG Lambert, Gerfried GW Müller, Elke Blumenthal , Friedrich Junge , Antonio Loprieno and Gerald Moers .

In the order of their first contributions, the employees and editors of the New Series are Bernd Janowski , Hans Neumann , Rosel Pientka-Hinz, Friedhelm Hartenstein, Karl Hecker , Gernot Wilhelm , Helmut Freydank , Karen Radner, Michael Jursa , Josef Tropper, Juan-Pablo Vita, Christian Niedorf, Frank Zeeb, Heike Sternberg-el Hotabi , Matthias Müller, Martin Andreas Stadler, Carsten Peust, Heidemarie Koch , Ingo Kottsieper , Andrea Jördens , Norbert Nebes, Hans Neumann, Daniel Schwemer, Jörg Klinger , John David Hawkins , Herbert Niehr, Francis Breyer , Daniel A. Werning, Friedrich Junge, Gerald Moers, Angelika Berlejung , Louise Gestermann, Jared L. Miller, Anson F. Rainey, Maren Schentuleit , Nele Ziegler, Nils P. Heeßel, Markham J. Geller, Barbara Böck , Stefan Maul , Eckart Frahm, Jörg Klinger, Wolfhart Westendorf , Rainer Hannig , Orell Witthuhn, Katharina Stegbauer, Friedhelm Hoffmann , Joachim Friedrich Quack , Susanne Paulus, Steven Lundström, Günter Vittmann, Burkhard Backes, Annick Wüthrich, Hanna Jenni, Anne Multhoff, Walter W. Müller and Peter Stein.

See also

Bibliographical information

Old episode

  • Otto Kaiser (Hrsg.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. 18 deliveries in three volumes. Gütersloh publishing house Gerd Mohn, Gütersloh 1982–1997. ISBN 3-579-00060-8 to ISBN 3-579-00075-6 .
    Available as PDF files on CD-ROM since 2006: ISBN 3-579-00085-3 .
    Unchanged reprint as a study edition in four volumes: Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. wbg academic, Darmstadt 2019. ISBN 978-3-534-27114-6 .

New episode

  • Bernd Janowski, Gernot Wilhelm (ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. New episode. Vol. 1.
    Texts on legal and economic life. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2004. ISBN 3-579-05289-6
  • Bernd Janowski, Gernot Wilhelm (ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. New episode. Vol. 2.
    State treaties, rulers' inscriptions and other documents on political history. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2005. ISBN 3-579-05288-8 .
  • Bernd Janowski, Gernot Wilhelm (ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. New episode. Vol. 3.
    Letters. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2006. ISBN 3-579-05287-X .
  • Bernd Janowski, Gernot Wilhelm (ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. New episode. Vol. 4.
    Omina, oracle, rituals and incantations. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008. ISBN 3-579-05290-X .
  • Bernd Janowski, Daniel Schwemer (ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. New episode. Vol. 5.
    Texts on medicine. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2010. ISBN 978-3-579-05278-6 .
  • Bernd Janowski, Daniel Schwemer (ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. New episode. Vol. 6.
    Grave, coffin, building and votive writings. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2011. ISBN 978-3-579-05279-3 .
  • Bernd Janowski, Daniel Schwemer (ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. New episode. Vol. 7.
    Hymns, Lamentations and Prayers. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2013. ISBN 978-3-579-05280-9 .
  • Bernd Janowski, Daniel Schwemer (ed.): Texts from the environment of the Old Testament. New episode. Vol. 8.
    Wisdom texts, myths and epics. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2015. ISBN 978-3-579-05281-6 .

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chair for Ancient Near Eastern Studies: Texts from the Environment of the Old Testament New Series. Retrieved November 15, 2017 .