From InfiniteLoom
Background
Wisdom Literature
- Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel (Google Book)
- http://books.google.com/books?id=R4LpTUBQ5QgC
Instructions of Shurrupak (2500 BCE)
Reforms of Urukagina (2370 BCE)
Code of Ur-Nammu (2050 BCE)
Epic of Gilgamesh (2000 BCE)
- Google Book (George 2003)
- http://books.google.com/books?id=eCZRK_61adMC
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)
Abraham