Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age: Notes

by Yoram Cohen

Publisher:

Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)

, 2013

Overview

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.

Product Details

• Title: Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age: Notes
• Author: Yoram Cohen
• Series: Writings from the Ancient World
• Volume: 29
• Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Assyro-Babylonian literature; Wisdom literature › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Akkadian language › Texts; Assyro-Babylonian literature › Translations into English
• ISBNs: 9781589837539, 9781589837546, 9781589837751, 1589837533, 1589837541, 1589837754
• Resource ID: LLS:WSDMLTBRNZGNOTES
• Resource Type: Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T04:29:14Z

About Yoram Cohen

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.