 | Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age Subjects: Assyro-Babylonian literature; Wisdom literature -- Criticism interpretation etc.; Akkadian language -- Texts; Assyro-Babylonian literature -- Translations into English; This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1500-1200 B.C.E.) found at the ancient Near Eastern sites of Hattusa, Emar, and Ugarit. These wisdom compositions constitute the missing link between the great Sumerian wisdom corpus and early Akkadian wisdom literature of the Old Babylonian period, on the one hand, and the wisdom compositions of the first millennium B.C.E., on the other. Included here are works such as the Ballad of Early Rulers, Hear the Advice, and The Date-Palm and the Tamarisk, as well as proverb collections from Ugarit and Hattusa. A detailed introduction provides an assessment of the place of wisdom literature in the ancient curriculum and library collections. Yoram Cohen is Senior Lecturer of Assyriology at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Scribes and Scholars of the City of Emar in the Late Bronze Age (Eisenbrauns) and has written numerous studies on the Late Bronze Age scribal schools and their curriculum. |
