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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965802703321
• Autore: Cohen Yoram <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Atlanta : , : Society of Biblical Literature, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 9781589837751; 1589837754; 9781589837546; 1589837541
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Easter sites of Hattu a, 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 Hattu a. A detailed introduction provides an assessment of the place of wisdom literature in the ancient curriculum and library collections. Book jacket.