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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wisdom literature is the genre of literature common in the Ancient Near East. This genre is characterized by sayings of wisdom intended to teach about divinity and about virtue. The key principle of wisdom literature is that whilst techniques of traditional story-telling are used, books also presume to offer insight and wisdom about nature and reality. In Ancient Egyptian literature, wisdom literature was belonged to the sebayt (i.e. ''teaching'') genre which flowered…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wisdom literature is the genre of literature common in the Ancient Near East. This genre is characterized by sayings of wisdom intended to teach about divinity and about virtue. The key principle of wisdom literature is that whilst techniques of traditional story-telling are used, books also presume to offer insight and wisdom about nature and reality. In Ancient Egyptian literature, wisdom literature was belonged to the sebayt (i.e. ''teaching'') genre which flowered during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and became canonical during the New Kingdom. Notable works of this genre include the Instructions of Kagemni, The Maxims of Ptahhotep, the Instructions of Amenemhat, and the Loyalist Teaching.