By Yoram Cohen; Edited by Andrew R. George
This quantity provides the unique texts and annotated translations of a suite of Mesopotamian knowledge compositions and comparable texts of the past due Bronze Age (ca. 1500–1200 B.C.E.) came across on the historical close to jap websites of Hattuša, Emar, and Ugarit. those knowledge compositions represent the lacking hyperlink among the good Sumerian knowledge corpus and early Akkadian knowledge literature of the previous Babylonian interval, at the one hand, and the knowledge compositions of the 1st millennium B.C.E., at the different. incorporated listed below are works resembling the Ballad of Early Rulers, listen the recommendation, and The Date-Palm and the Tamarisk, in addition to proverb collections from Ugarit and Hattuša. an in depth creation offers an evaluate of where of knowledge literature within the historic curriculum and library collections.
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Anikkuili was probably operative in the mid-fifteenth century. 6, Text A). Because the piece lacks a colophon, further investigation into Hanikkuili’s scribal habits is required to verify this suggestion. 6, Text B) were found next to the House on the Slope. Viewed within the wider dating of manuscripts found there, a thirteenth century date can be tentatively argued for them. Currently, however, they cannot be linked to a scribe or a scribal circle. They derive from a secondary deposit, contain no colophons that would have given us the identity of the scribe, and are in a poor state of preservation.
However Ba‘al-qarrād’s sons, Šaggar-abu and Ba‘al-mālik, were both students and later probably teachers at Temple M1, their home. I quote here two colophons, one belonging to Šaggar-abu, as copyist of an advanced text although still a student; the other Ba‘al-mālik’s, as a teacher of a family member (whose name is missing). Both colophons come from Temple M1. -abu, [junior] scribe […] [servant of] Nabû and Nisaba, servant of […] [servant of Ea and] Damkina, stud[ent of…]. meš uru] ˹E˺-mar! z]u ša mdIm-ma-lik of Ba‘al-mālik (lú=ša, Emar 602AD = Cohen 2009: 177) Šaggar-abu was the chief diviner but after his premature death, his youngest brother Ba‘al-mālik took over.
2. definitions and approaches 17 A contextual approach, although not defined as such at the time, was at the heart of Lambert’s introduction to Babylonian Wisdom Literature. Surely a source of disappointment for many, the introduction refrained from speaking at all about formal characteristics of Babylonian wisdom literature but moved on to discuss in a somewhat general way the development of thought and literature in ancient Mesopotamia. The introduction, apart from the opening section (which we have discussed above), is rather ignored nowadays because it is long outdated, its historical and social observations questioned if not dismissed.