Wisdom From the Late Bronze Age

Yoram Cohen, Andrew R. George (Editor)

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Abstract

This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1200 B.C.E.) found at the ancient Near Eastern sites of Hattuša, Emar, and Ugarit. These wisdom compositions constitute the missing link between the great Sumerian wisdom corpus and early Akkadian wisdom literature of the Old Babylonian period, on the one hand, and the wisdom compositions of the first millennium B.C.E., on the other. Included here are works such as the Ballad of Early Rulers, Hear the Advice, and The Date-Palm and the Tamarisk, as well as proverb collections from Ugarit and Hattuša. A detailed introduction provides an assessment of the place of wisdom literature in the ancient curriculum and library collections.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationAtlanta
PublisherSociety of Biblical Literature
Number of pages254
ISBN (Electronic)9781589837546
ISBN (Print)9781589837539, 9781589837751
StatePublished - 2013

Publication series

NameWritings from the ancient world
PublisherSociety of Biblical Literature
Volumeno. 29

Keywords

  • Akkadian language--Texts
  • Assyro-Babylonian literature
  • Assyro-Babylonian literature--Translations into English
  • Wisdom literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc

ULI publications

  • uli
  • Akkadian language -- Texts
  • Assyro-Babylonian literature -- Translations into English
  • Bible -- Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • Wisdom literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • Wisdom literature -- History and criticism

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