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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

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mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wisdom from the late Bronze Age

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electronic resource

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dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

861200391

Responsibility statement

by Yoram Cohen ; edited by Andrew R. George

Series statement

ACLS Humanities E-BookWritings from the ancient world, no. 29

Table Of Contents

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

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