Contents
Series Editor’s Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
A General Overview of the Compositions and Their Sources
Definitions and Approaches
The Historical and Social Contexts
The Archaeological and Archival Contexts
The Curricular Context: The Place and Role of Wisdom Literature within the Scribal-School Curriculum
Šimâ Milka, or The Instructions of Šūpê-amēli
The Ballad of Early Rulers
Enlil and Namzitarra
The Righteous Sufferer or a Hymn to Marduk from Ugarit
The Date Palm and the Tamarisk
Proverb Collections from Ḫattuša
An Akkadian-Hurrian Bilingual Proverb Extract
Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings in Letters: The Mari Letters and Late Bronze Age Correspondence
Bibliography
Index of Sources
Index of Names