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In the Essay please identify. What is the historical context of the passage? What circumstances was it written to address? How is the text structured? What is the significance of this structure? Are their repetitions in the text? Why do you think such repetition has been used? Identify the key points of comparison (similarities and differences) between your selected passage (choose any of your choice) and relevant ANE – ‘ancient Near Eastern history’ background texts (choose any of your choice) What is the purpose of the text? Identify any key translational issues in the text. Recommended references: J. Walton, Genesis (ZIBBCOT; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009) 1.215-219. • R. A. Cole, Exodus (Leicester: IVP, 1973), 123-127. • John H. Walton, Victor H. Matthews, and Mark W. Chavalas, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: Old Testament (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2000), 90-92. • D. R. Redford, “Execration and Execration Texts,” ABD, 2:681-82. • James Bennett Pritchard, ed., The Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (3rd ed. with Supplement.; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969),328-
