Teaching morality in antiquity: wisdom texts, oral traditions, and images
Cover -- Titel -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I: Wisdom and Gods as the Foundation of Morality in Ancient World -- JAN DIETRICH: Wisdom in the Cultures of the Ancient World: A General Introduction and Comparison -- JAN ASSMANN: Tugenden und Pflichten nach altägyptischen Morallehren -- II: Ancien...
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Tübingen
Mohr Siebeck
2018
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Orientalische Religionen in der Antike (29)
Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Teaching morality in antiquity : Wisdom Texts, Oral Traditions, and Images] (2020) (Kessler, Rainer, 1944 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Orientalische Religionen in der Antike
29 |
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Job
/ Ethics
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Conference program 2016 (Leipzig)
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| Summary: | Cover -- Titel -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I: Wisdom and Gods as the Foundation of Morality in Ancient World -- JAN DIETRICH: Wisdom in the Cultures of the Ancient World: A General Introduction and Comparison -- JAN ASSMANN: Tugenden und Pflichten nach altägyptischen Morallehren -- II: Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom Texts -- YORAM COHEN: Why "Wisdom"? Copying, Studying, and Collecting Wisdom Literature in the Cuneiform World -- ALAN LENZI: "Counsels of Wisdom" as "White-Collar" Wisdom in First Millennium Ancient Mesopotamia -- HERBERT NIEHR: Weisheit in den Königsepen aus Ugarit -- III: Comparative Studies of Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom Texts -- NOGA AYALI-DARSHAN: "Do not Open your Heart to Your Wife or Servant" (Khasheshonqy 13:17): A West-Asiatic Antecedent and its Relation to Later Wisdom Instructions -- DANIEL BODI: Two Animal Proverbs in Ahiqar and in Aesop on Human Relationships: Mercilessness and Sharing -- ENRIQUE JIMÉNEZ: An Almost Irresistible Target: Parodying the Theodicy in Babylonian Literature -- IV: Moral Teaching in the Book of Job -- EDWARD L. GREENSTEIN: Proverbs and Popular Sayings, Real or Invented, in the Book of Job -- DOMINICK S. HERNÁNDEZ: The Expression of Moral Judgments through Imagery in Job and Ancient Near Eastern Literature -- LUDGER SCHWIENHORST-SCHÖNBERGER: „Jetzt aber hat mein Auge dich geschaut" (Ijob 42,5): Gibt es im Ijobbuch eine Lösung des Problems auf der Ebene des Bewusstseins? -- V: Questions of Theodicy in the Ancient Near Eastern World -- ALEXANDRA VON LIEVEN: „Ich habe nicht befohlen, dass sie Unrecht tun": Das Theodizee-Problem im Alten Ägypten -- THOMAS KRÜGER: Morality and Religion in Three Babylonian Poems of Pious Sufferers -- T.M. OSHIMA: When the Godless Thrives and a Wolf Grows Fat: Explaining the Prosperity of the Impious in Ancient Mesopotamian Wisdom Texts. |
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| Item Description: | Preface: "The eighteen articles collected in this volume are the results of the international workshop, "Teaching Morality in Antiquity: Wisdom Texts, Oral Traditions, and Images," held at the Bibliotheca Albertina of the University of Leipzig between November 29th and December 1st, 2016" |
| ISBN: | 3161564812 |