Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond
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abstract
The volume publishes the proceeding of the workshop Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond held at the University of Turin on 26-27 October 2022. The volume collects papers from Assyriologists, Classicists and Biblical scholars around the topic of wisdom. Scholars have investigated wisdom from various angles, from speculative thought to literature, from science, to dance, to proverbs.
Astronomy • Science • Scientia • Nēmequ • Wisdom literature • Morality tale • Egyptian medicine • Scribal education • Dialectics in Assyro-Babylonian texts • Babylonian literature • Dance • Hittites • Episteme • Erra and Išum • Scholarly text compilation • Tupšarrūtu • Cult Festivals • Dialogue and debate • Sumerian • Bull-Leaping • Rational medicine • Religious medicine • Parody • Greek medicine • Royal legislation • Narrative Dances • Magical medicine • Babylonian Theodicy • Folktale • Law • Satire • Cuneiform world