TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Yoram
AU  - George,A.R.
TI  - Wisdom from the late Bronze Age
T2  - Writings from the ancient world
SN  - 9781589837539
AV  - PJ3941 .C64 2013
KW  - Assyro-Babylonian literature
KW  - Wisdom literature
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Akkadian language
KW  - Texts
KW  - Translations into English
N1  - Should be number 34 of series; Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and indexes; 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
ER  -