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Creation and the Flood -- Tower of Babel -- Ancestral customs -- Epic literature -- Covenants and treaties -- Law codes -- Cultic texts -- Royal records from Mesopotamia -- Chronicles and other historiographic lists -- Non-Hebrew monumental inscriptions -- Letters -- Other Hebrew inscriptions -- Wisdom literature -- Love poems -- Hymns and prayers -- Prophecies, visions, and apocalyptic -- Divination and incantation texts -- Lamentations.

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Moyen-Orient--Religion--Sources.