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 The editor has copied anew all the cuneiform tablets on which they are inscribed, and has found unpublished material, so that the texts are now presented in a more complete and accurate form than was possible previously.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). |
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Page vi
... Ashurbanipal's library . ( No Ashurbanipal tablets in Babylonian script occur in this book . ) Bold - face lower - case letters ( a , & c . ) refer to tablets from Assur or Sultantepe . Lower - case roman ( a , & c . ) refers to Neo ...
... Ashurbanipal's library . ( No Ashurbanipal tablets in Babylonian script occur in this book . ) Bold - face lower - case letters ( a , & c . ) refer to tablets from Assur or Sultantepe . Lower - case roman ( a , & c . ) refers to Neo ...
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... Ashurbanipal libraries . There is no strong reason to compel any date in particular between about 1400 and 800. One con- sideration which has been urged in favour of a late date within this range is the acrostic . Only four other ...
... Ashurbanipal libraries . There is no strong reason to compel any date in particular between about 1400 and 800. One con- sideration which has been urged in favour of a late date within this range is the acrostic . Only four other ...
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... Ashurbanipal colophon ( not copied ) , belonging to type ( e ) in the classification of Streck , VAB VII . 358. B also has a few remnants of an unidentifiable Ashurbanipal colophon . 186 [ . 187 [ . • .. • . ] discretion , consultation ...
... Ashurbanipal colophon ( not copied ) , belonging to type ( e ) in the classification of Streck , VAB VII . 358. B also has a few remnants of an unidentifiable Ashurbanipal colophon . 186 [ . 187 [ . • .. • . ] discretion , consultation ...
Contents
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY | xi |
CITATIONS FROM AKKADIAN TEXTS xvii | 81 |
THE BABYLONIAN THEODICY | 63 |
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1817 LIBRARIES a-na a-na-ku A. L. Oppenheim AƒO Akkadian alpu appears Apsû Asarhaddon Ashurbanipal at-ta Babylon bēl Bilingual Proverbs Böhl Borger Cassite period colophon column Commentary connexion context copy Counsels of Wisdom Dynasty Dynasty of Babylon Ebeling edited Enlil Epic Erim.huš Esarhaddon exercise tablet Fable of Fox Falkenstein fragment Gilgameš giš gods Harra i-na incantation Ištar it-ti JNES ki-i ki-ma king Landsberger Late Babylonian literature LTBA Ludlul 11 Malku-šarru manuscripts MAOG Marduk Meissner Mesopotamia MICHIGAN Middle Assyrian MVAG Ninurta Nippur Nisaba OBVERSE occurs OECT Old Babylonian omens pa-an Palm passage phrase Plate reading restored REVERSE šá Šamaš Hymn šarri scribe Semitic Sippar slave Soden STVC 3+4 šu-ut Sultantepe Sumerian Collection šumma Tamarisk Theodicy traces translation Tukulti-Ninurta Epic UNIV VARIANTS verb word writer