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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. 34.Publisher: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781589837546
  • 1589837541
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wisdom from the late Bronze Age.DDC classification:
  • 892/.1 23
LOC classification:
  • PJ3941 .C64 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)651821

Should be number 34 of series.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

Print version record. Print record is xvii, 254 pages.

English.