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 University of Leipzig in 2016. They discuss diverse issues related to wisdom texts and morality.

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is a researcher at the Institute for Old Testament Studies, the Faculty of Theology, of the University of Leipzig, Germany. Born 1986; 2016 MA in Assyriology from Leipzig University; ; 2011-15 research assistant at the Institute for ancient Near Eastern Studies at Leipzig University; 2016-18 research assistant at DFG project "Teaching Morality in Antiquity".

Inhalt
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": Notions of the Prosperity of the Impious in Ancient Mesopotamian Wisdom Texts

VI: Visual Demonstration of Divine Authority
Izak Cornelius: Communicating Divine Order and Authority: The Stela of Hammurapi of Babylon - Judith E. Filitz: At the Threshold of Ritual and Theater: Another Means on Looking at a Mesopotamian Ritual

VII: Ancient Morality through the Perspective of Cognitive Science
Yitzhaq Feder: Morality Without Gods? Retribution and the Foundations of the Moral Order in the Ancient Near East - Karolina Prochownik: Gods and Goodness by the Rivers of Babylon: A Cognitive Scientific Approach to Ancient Mesopotamian Moral Theology