RANE

Question 1

HYMN TO AMON RE

Answer 1

1550 - 1350 BC, BUT THE HUMN ITSELF MAY DATE TO AN EARLIER TIME. THE TEXT REFLECT A TENDENCY OF THIS TIME TO CENTRALIZE DIVINE POWER IN ONE GOD.

Question 2

HYMN TO THE ATEN

Answer 2

• 4TH CENTURY BC
• CREDITED TO AKHENATEN, TEENAGE PHAROAH
• EXALTS THE DOCTRINE OF THE SUNGOD ATEN AS THE ONE TRUE GOD WHO CREATED AND SUSTAINS THE WORLD
• DIVINE POWER IS CENTRALIZED IN ONE GOD

Question 3

HYMN TO ENLIL

Answer 3

• THE SUMERIAN DATES TO THE OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD(2000 - 1595 BC)
• FOCUSES ON ENLIL’S SUPREMACY AMONG THE GODS

Question 4

HYMN TO SHAMASH

Answer 4

• BABYLONIAN HYMN THAT DATES TO THE LATE SECOND MILLENIUM
• GOD OF JUSTICE
• DESCRIBES HIS ATTENTION TO JUSTICE IN THE WORLD
• GIVES SPECIAL EMPHASIS TO FAIRNESS IN THE BUSINESS WORLD

Question 5

PRAYER TO ISHTAR

Answer 5

• MID SECOND CENTURY BC
• GODDESS OF LOVE AND WAR
• PRAYER BEINGS WITH PRAISE
• THEN IMPLORED TO THE THE PLIGHT OF WORSHIPER AND BRING DELIVERANCE
• SOME SCHOLARS SEE A CONNECTION BETWEEN LAMENT PSALMS, BUT THIS PRAYER BEINGS WITH PRIASE TO GOD WHILE BIBLICAL LAMENTS TYPICALLY BEGIN BY DESCRIBING THE WORSHIPER’S DIFFICULT SITUATION

Question 6

PSALM TO MARDUK

Answer 6

• MID-FIRST MILLENNIUM BC
• BEGINS BY ASKING MARDUK WHY HIS PRAYERS HAVE GONE UNANSWERED
• CONFESSION OF SIN
• ASKS MARDUK TO RESTORE THEIR RELATIONSHIP

Question 7

PLAGUE PRAYERS OF MURSILIS II

Answer 7

• 1350 - 1325 BC
• HITTITE KING
• A PLAGUE KILLED MANY OF MUSILIS’S FAMILY
• DURING HIS PRAYER HE CONFESSES HIS SINS
• POINTS OUT RESTITUTION ALREADY MADE TO THE GODS
• ASKS THEM TO REMOVE THE EFFECTS OF THE PLAGUE

Question 8

MARI PROPHECY

Answer 8

• ANCIENT CITY OF LOCATED ON THE BANKS OF THE EUPHRATES
• 20,000 CUNIFORM DOCUMENTS
• 1800 - 1760 BC
• DESCRIBE THE LIVES OF THE NOMADIC PEOPLE WHOSE NAMES ARE SIMILAR TO PEOPLE IN GENESIS
• ALSO DESCRIBE MALE AND FEMALE PROPHETS WHO MAKE PRONOUNCEMENTS AGAINST THE KING
• PROPHETS UTTER COUNCIL TO THE KING, BUT LACK THE STRONG MORAL BASE OF BIBLICAL PROPHETS