The Nuzi texts are ancient documents found during an excavation of Nuzi, an ancient Mesopotamian city southwest of Kirkuk in modern Kirkuk Governorate of Iraq, located near the Tigris river. They were found on cuneiform tablets written in the Akkadian language.[1] The site consists of one medium-sized multiperiod tell and two small single period mounds. The texts are mainly legal and business documents. They have previously been viewed as evidence for the age and veracity of certain parts of the Old Testament, especially of the Patriarchal age, but that attribution is now doubted by most scholars.[2]
^"Nuzi". Jewish Virtual Library.
^Kenton L Sparks (2016). "The ancient Near Eastern context". In Chapman, Steven B; Sweeney, Marvin A. (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521883207. Scholars once believed that customs reflected in Nuzi's fifteenth- and fourteenth-century Akkadian texts were similar to, and thus confirmed, the antiquity of the patriarchal stories in Genesis, but today this is widely doubted; the Nuzi texts provide only general cultural background for our understanding of ancient Israel.
The Nuzitexts are ancient documents found during an excavation of Nuzi, an ancient Mesopotamian city southwest of Kirkuk in modern Kirkuk Governorate...
land. List of cities of the ancient Near East Nuzitexts Lewy, Julius, "Notes on Pre-Ḫurrian Texts from Nuzi", Journal of the American Oriental Society,...
various epithets, either linguistically Hurrian or "Hurrianised," in texts from Nuzi. Gernot Wilhelm renders the logogram phonetically as Ishtar, but according...
ISBN 978-87-7289-040-1. Speiser, E. A., "Notes to Recently Published NuziTexts", Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 432–43...
Hurrians are mentioned in the private Nuzitexts, in Ugarit, and the Hittite archives in Hattusa (Boğazköy). Cuneiform texts from Mari mention rulers of city-states...
that would make Abraham, Isaac or Jacob credible historical figures. Nuzitexts Prehistory Frevel, Christian. History of Ancient Israel. Atlanta, Georgia...
Pennsylvania Press. ———; Pfeiffer, Robert H. (1936). One Hundred New Selected NuziTexts. ——— (1941). Studies in the History of Science. Philadelphia: University...
numerous examples identified in texts from Nuzi. He is also attested as a commonly worshipped deity in the Ugaritic texts, which indicate that Hurrian and...
Jun 2001 ISBN 0824704363 Retrieved 2012-07-29 (secondary) MP Maidman - NuziTexts and Their Uses As Historical Evidence - Society of Biblical Lit, 2010...
in the realm of the gods with his demon army. The Goddess of War, Chidi Nuzi, sacrificed her life to seal Dongfang Qingcang and his battalion. A prophecy...
name is attested as hēzīr in I Chron. 24:15, Neh. 10:20) hu-zi-ri in the Nuzitexts, hnzr in Ugarit, and perhaps hi-zi-ri in Amorite. Khendjer could be, according...
specialised in cuneiform texts and Babylonian mathematics. She translated, commented on, and published a number of texts from Nuzi and Mari. She also contributed...
particularly common in the earliest Akkadian documents from Gasur (later known as Nuzi). It has been proposed that such names, both divine and ordinary, originate...
Nuzi Shahsavarvand (Persian: نوزي شهسواروند, also Romanized as Nūzī Shahsavārvand) is a village in Afrineh Rural District, Mamulan District, Pol-e Dokhtar...
Tigunana. In General |Studies and Excavations at Nuzi, vol. 10/2, Studies on the Civilization and Culture of nuzi and the Hurrians, vol. 9. pages 125-134. Bethseda...
attested in the word kumdi, “tower”, and in personal names in the texts from Nuzi. An alternate proposal is to link it with the Akkadian term kummu,...
few suffix derivations, possibly the same as /i/-stems). As well, in texts from Nuzi, stems of /u/ (or /o/?) are found, mainly on non-Hurrian names and...
reconstructed. Large portions of the Epic of Gilgamesh were among the many finds. Nuzi (Modern Yorgan Tepe) (1500 B.C.) This archive consisted of over 6,000 tablets...
as dKu-mar-bi. A byform, Kumurwe, is attested in sources from Nuzi. In Ugaritic texts written in the local alphabetic cuneiform script it was rendered...
pantheons of cities such as Nuzi and Arrapha have to be reconstructed only based on administrative texts. Documents from Nuzi allude to distinct customs...
on the Religion of the Ur III Court". General studies and excavations at Nuzi 10/3. Bethesda, Md: CDL Press. ISBN 1-883053-68-4. OCLC 48399212. Wiggins...
is attested in both Ugaritic and Hurrian texts. He or his plural form occurs in the beginning of such texts, before El, Kumarbi and Teshub. A reference...
imperial governor. The city of Nuzi was established by the Akkadians and a number of economic and administrative texts were found there. Similarly, there...
be related to the ordinary name Tu-li-ša attested both in Ugarit and in Nuzi. Talish occurs in parallel with Dimgay, another minor goddess, the handmaiden...
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