From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: July 1, 1994| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1994 American Oriental Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A study of wisdom in Akkadian literature is to be welcomed on many counts. The harvest of interpretive studies of Akkadian literature is still meager; so much basic work remains to be undertaken. The texts referred to as "wisdom literature" are available in excellent editions, so discussion can go beyond philological and text critical problems. The texts themselves are replete with human interest and of sufficient variety to satisfy almost any taste in reading. Thus Denning-Bolle's work can at the outset break new ground and go in many directions.

After a brief introduction, the ...