A Set of Shared Proverbs from the Cedar Forest Tablet of the Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh and the Book of Qohelet 4, 9-12

Yoram Cohen

doi:10.1017/irq.2024.18

A Set of Shared Proverbs from the Cedar Forest Tablet of the Standard Babylonian Gilgamesh and the Book of Qohelet 4, 9-12

Yoram Cohen

Department of Archaeology

Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

The article reconstructs lines 75-80 of Tablet V of the Standard Babylonian version of the Epic of Gilgameš. It offers a re-edition of all the extant sources and uses as a recourse verses 9-12 in Chapter 4 of the Book of Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). It then demonstrates how close the passage in the Epic of Gilgameš and the verses of the Book of Qohelet are. The article concludes with a brief discussion about the relationship between the Epic of Gilgameš and the Book of Qohelet.

Translated title of the contribution	Qohelet 4,9-مجموعة من الأمثال المشتركة من لوح غابة الأرز من ملحمة جلجامش البابلية القياسية وكتاب قوهليت 12
Original language	English
Journal	Iraq
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/irq.2024.18
State	Accepted/In press - 2025

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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Archaeology
Classics
Archaeology

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