bussurtu
(passurtu, basratu) s.; unexpected tidings (usually good); . . . ūmu
ubla bu-su-ra-tu-ma (what) the day brought me (is) only good news (incipit
of a song) KAR 158 r. ii 15; note ṭuppi-bu-us-su-rat ḫadê [u su]lummê tušēbila
a[na] ma[ḫa]r [ilū]tija (I, Aššur, will deliver your enemies into your hand
and) you will send a tablet with the good news and news of peace to My Majesty
(referring to the reports of the NA) kings to the god) (The Assyrian
Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, ed.
Ignace J. Gelb, Benno Landsberger, A. Leo Oppenheim, and Erica Reiner, 21 vols.
[Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1965], 2:346)
Further Reading
Responding to William Whalen on Alleged Anachronisms in the Book of Mormon (under "Gospel")
