Babylonian Wisdom LiteratureIn Babylonian studies 'Wisdom' is used to cover a group of texts similar in scope to the Biblical Wisdom books: discussions on the problem of suffering, teaching on the good life, fables or contest literature, and proverbs. These texts are not only of considerable literary merit, but are also of great importance to all students of the ancient Near East as revealing the thought pattern of the ancient Babylonians. Hitherto they have lain scattered in dozens of books and journals; now for the first time they are collected in a single volume. The editor has copied anew all the cuneiform tablets on which they are inscribed, and has found unpublished material, so that the texts are now presented in a more complete and accurate form than was possible previously. In addition to the cuneiform copies each work is given in translation and transliteration, and an introductory chapter sets forth the cosmological background against which the works are to be set. Philological notes and a glossary complete the volume. (Book jacket). |
Contents
THE BABYLONIAN THEODICY | 70 |
PRECEPTS AND ADMONITIONS | 92 |
PRECEPTIVE HYMNS | 121 |
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a-na a-na-ku A. L. Oppenheim AƒO AJSL 28 Akkadian alpu an-nu-u appears Apsû arad Asarhaddon Ashurbanipal at-ta Babylon be-lí bēl Bilingual Proverbs Cassite period colophon column Commentary connexion context copy Counsels of Wisdom dingir E. I. Gordon Ebeling Edition Enlil Epic Esarhaddon exercise tablet Fable of Fox Falkenstein fragment Gilgameš giš gods Harra i-na iš-tu Ištar it-ti JNES ki-i ki-ma king la-a Landsberger Late Babylonian literature Ludlul 11 Malku-šarru MAOG Marduk Meissner Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian Ninurta Nippur Nisaba OBVERSE occurs Old Babylonian omens pa-an Palm passage phrase piece Plate R. H. Pfeiffer restored REVERSE šá Šamaš Šamaš Hymn šarri šarru scribe Sippar slave Soden STVC 3+4 šu-ut Sultantepe Sumerian Collection Tamarisk Theodicy traces translation Tukulti-Ninurta Epic um-ma VARIANTS verb Wolf word writer