Wisdom from the late Bronze Age
by George, A. R., Cohen, Yoram
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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 Hattuša, Emar, and Ugarit. These wisdom compositions …
This book investigates a corpus of royal inscriptions and literary texts, with special emphasis on those that are mythological and biblical, stretching over several millennia from the early days of Sumer to the Biblical period, in order to determine the ways in which the concept…
The book offers a comprehensive analytic comparison between the images of primeval history in Babylonia, in the Hebrew Bible and the parallel Enochic traditions. It presents new interpretations of each of these traditions and how they relate to each other.
Light in the Gagûm window: the Sippar Cloister in the Late Old Babylonian period Sheep and cattle, cows and calves: the Sumero-Akkadian astral gods as livestock Coherence and fragments: reflections on the SKL and the Book fo Judges Early non-cuneiform writing? Third-millenium BC…
