Sumerian Proverbs In The Schoyen Collection

Download or read book Sumerian Proverbs in the Schøyen Collection written by Bendt Alster and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sumerian proverbs constitute the oldest major corpus of proverbs in the world. They date, by and large, from the Old Babylonian period (c. 1900-1600 B.C.). Apart from a limited number of Egyptian proverbs, those of biblical and classical origin come closest in time and geographical proximity to the Sumerian proverbs. The Sumerian proverbs are the oldest branch of a universally known phenomenon. The number of proverbs that can be adduced for comparison from European, American, Arabic, Chinese, Indian, and African sources, to mention only the main areas, is overwhelming"--Prové de l'editor.