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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Akkadian Original language: Akkadian Series: Writings from the ancient world ; no. 29.Description: xvii, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781589837539
  • 1589837533
  • 9781589837751
  • 1589837754
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PJ3941 .C64 2013
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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Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Centre for South Asia Research (CSAR) 220.4 C678W (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 053259

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.

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