This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age found at the ancient Near Eastern sites of Hattu a, 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 BC, 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 Hattu. A detailed introduction assesses the place of wisdom literature in the ancient curriculum and library collections.