Wisdom from the late Bronze Age / by Yoram Cohen ; edited by Andrew R. George.

Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013], ©2013.

xvii, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Publisher's website (http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/pubs/061534P.pdf) indicates that the correct series number for this text is 34.

Part I : Introduction -- 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. Part II : Late bronze age wisdom compositions -- Sima milka, or The instructions of Supe-ameli -- 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 Hattusa -- An Akkadian-Hurian bilingual proverb extract -- Proverbs and proverbial sayings in letters: the Mari letters and late Bronze Age correspondence.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-247) and indexes.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([Writings from the ancient world]) ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.