When applying the term wisdom literature (WL) to ancient Mesopotamian literature we need to distinguish between the idea of wisdom (Akkadian nēmequ, Sumerian nam.kù.zu, 'precious knowledge') [10; 11] as 'wealth of general human experience' and the concept of wisdom as expertise in a cult. On the one hand, there are a number of non-homogenous, formally different literary genres in which knowle…
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Böck, Barbara (Madrid),
Quack, Joachim (Berlin),
S.SC.,
Hollender, Elisabeth (Cologne) and
Toral-Niehoff, Isabel (Freiburg),
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