This volumes includes almost one hundred ancient documents from the ancient Near East that have relevance for the study ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible. It includes more than twenty photos of these documents, a newly updated bibliography, and a new foreword.

"The aim throughout the volume has been to relate each document as closely as possible to the Old Testament, and to bring out relevant points of interest touching history, chronology, archaeology, religion, literature, geography, and so on, in illustration of the Old Testament. Not all Israel's story is told in the Old Testament. It has to be supplemented by the evidence of ancient documents discovered by archaeologists—inscriptions on clay, stone, seals and coins, and writings on potsherds, papyrus and leather. Some part of this story it is the purpose of this volume to tell. . . . While Israel is not without her testimony to herself, it is for the most part the witness of her neighbours which is met with in the pages of this volume."
—from the Preface

Editor - D. Winton Thomas

Babylonian Epics, Hymns, Omens, and Other Texts by Albert T. Clay
The Book of Jubilees or the Little Genesis by R. H. Charles
Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testament, Second Edition
Documents from Old Testament Times
The Four Gospels in Syriac
Early Babylonian Letters from Larsa by Henry F. Lutz
The Babylonian Laws by G. R. Driver, John C. Miles
The Apologies of Justin Martyr
The Code of Hammurabi by Robert Francis Harper
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs by R. H. Charles
Early Babylonian History by Hugo Radau
Aramaic Papyri of the Fifth Century B.C. by A. E. Cowley
The Apocryphal Acts of Paul, Peter, John, Andrew, and Thomas by Bernhard Pick
The Apocryphal Gospels by B. Harris Cowper
The Apocalypse of Adam by Charles W. Hedrick
The Book of Tobit by Adolf Neubauer
The Ethiopic Text of 1 Enoch
Aramaic Documents of the Fifth Century B.C. by G. R. Driver
Psalms of the Pharisees, Commonly Called the Psalms of Solomon by Herbert E. Ryle, Montague Rhodes James
The Annals of Sennacherib by Daniel David Luckenbill
The Apocalypse of Baruch
The Book of Enoch by R. H. Charles
The Gospel of Peter by Henry Barclay Swete