Part 1. Introduction. A general overview of the compositions and their sources -- Definitions and approaches -- The historical and social contexts -- The archaeological and archival contexts -- The curricular context: the place and role of wisdom literature within the Scribal-school curriculum -- Part 2. Late Bronze Age Wisdom compositions. Šimâ milka, or The instructions of Šūpê-amēli -- The ballad of early rulers -- Enlil and Namzitarra -- The righteous sufferer or A hymn to Marduk from Ugarit -- The date palm and the Tamarisk -- Proverb collections from Ḫattuša -- An Akkadian-Hurrian bilingual proverb extract -- Proverbs and proverbial sayings in letters: the Mari letters and late Bronze Age correspondence
Notes
Should be number 34 of series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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English
Print version record. Print record is xvii, 254 pages
