Abstract
Although the wisdom genre was prevalent in many Ancient Near Eastern cultures, including sumer, Babylon, Canaan, and even Emar (Syria), Egyptian wisdom has proved to be the most important for the study of biblical wisdom literature. As 1 Kgs 5:10 informs us, it was widely known and esteemed during the biblical period, solomon’s wisdom “surpassing the wisdom of all the people of the east (כני קךם), and all the wisdom of Egypt.” The publication of this corpus thus constituted a watershed in the modern study of biblical wisdom literature.¹ This discussion demonstrates how comparison of the biblical and Egyptian wisdom
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Was There a Wisdom Tradition? New Prospects in Israelite Wisdom Studies |
| Editors | M.R. Sneed |
| Place of Publication | Atlanta |
| Publisher | SBL Press |
| Pages | 265-304 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781628371017 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781628371000 |
| State | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- African history
- African studies
- Anthropology
- Artists
- Arts
- Behavioral sciences
- Classical literature
- Communication skills
- Communications
- Economic disciplines
- Economics
- Education
- Egyptian history
- Employment
- Epistemology
- Ethnography
- Ethnology
- Families
- Family members
- Formal education
- Human societies
- Humanities instruction
- Kingdom of Egypt
- Labor economics
- Language
- Language arts
- Language skills
- Linguistics
- Literary genres
- Literary history
- Literary studies
- Literature
- Occupations
- Pedagogy
- Philosophy
- Proverbs
- Sayings
- Scribes
- Social institutions
- Social sciences
- Sociology
- Sons
- Vernacular language
- Wisdom
- Wisdom literature
- Writers
- Writing instruction
- Writing skills
- Written composition
