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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790511903321

Autore

Cohen Yoram <1968->

Titolo

Wisdom from the late Bronze Age / / by Yoram Cohen ; edited by Andrew R. George

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Atlanta : , : Society of Biblical Literature, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-58983-775-4

1-58983-754-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Writings from the ancient world ; ; number 29

Altri autori (Persone)

GeorgeA. R

Disciplina

892/.1

Soggetti

Akkadian language

Assyro-Babylonian literature

Wisdom literature - Criticism, interpretation, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Should be number 34 of series.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Part I : 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 II : Late bronze age wisdom compositions -- Sima milka, or The instructions of Supe-ameli -- 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 Hattusa -- An Akkadian-Hurian bilingual proverb extract -- Proverbs and proverbial sayings in letters: the Mari letters and late Bronze Age correspondence.