Mesopotamia

Background
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia

Wisdom Literature


 * Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel (Google Book)
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=R4LpTUBQ5QgC

Instructions of Shurrupak (2500 BCE)
 * http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.5.6.1#

Reforms of Urukagina (2370 BCE)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urukagina

Code of Ur-Nammu (2050 BCE)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu

Epic of Gilgamesh (2000 BCE)
 * Google Book (George 2003)
 * http://books.google.com/books?id=eCZRK_61adMC


 * Scribd
 * http://www.scribd.com/doc/11794918/Epic-of-Gilgamesh-Andrew-George

Code of Hammurabi (1780 BCE)
 * http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/hamcode.html
 * http://www.democraciaparticipativa.net/documentos/Hamurabi'sCode.html

Dialogue of Pessimism and Transcendence (1200 BCE)
 * http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/essays/tributebottero.html

Abraham
 * http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/context.html