Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. 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 2. Late Bronze Age Wisdom compositions. Šimâ milka, or The instructions of Šūpê-amēli
  • 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 Ḫattuša
  • An Akkadian-Hurrian bilingual proverb extract
  • Proverbs and proverbial sayings in letters: the Mari letters and late Bronze Age correspondence.