WISDOM LITERATURE Wisdom literature is a genre of literature common in the ancient Near East. It consists of statements by sages and the wise that offer teachings about divinity and virtue. Although this genre uses tec... 4QINSTRUCTION 4QInstruction, (Hebrew: מוסר למבין, romanized: Musar leMevin, lit. 'Instruction to a student'), also known as Sapiential Work A or Secret of the Way Things Are, is a Hebrew text among the Dead Sea Scr... ALTERCATIO HADRIANI AUGUSTI ET EPICTETI PHILOSOPHI The Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Epicteti philosophi is a Latin language question-and-answer dialogue composed by an anonymous author in the 2nd or 3rd century. It consists of a short, fictional con... AS A DOG RETURNS TO HIS VOMIT, SO A FOOL REPEATS HIS FOLLY "As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly" is an aphorism which appears in the Book of Proverbs in the Bible — Proverbs 26:11 (Hebrew: כְּ֭כֶלֶב שָׁ֣ב עַל־קֵאֹ֑ו כְּ֝סִ֗יל שֹׁונֶ֥ה ב... BOOK OF MYSTERIES The Book of Mysteries (also known as the Book of Secrets) is an ancient Essene text found in fragmentary form among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The scroll fragments are given the alphanumeric designations o... BOOK OF SIRACH The Book of Sirach (), also known as The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach, The Wisdom of Jesus son of Eleazar or Ecclesiasticus (), is a Jewish literary work, originally written in Biblical Hebrew. ... BOOK OF TOBIT The Book of Tobit () is an apocryphal Jewish work from the 3rd or early 2nd century BCE which describes how God tests the faithful, responds to prayers, and protects the covenant community (i.e., the ... COLLECTIO MONASTICA The Collectio Monastica ("Monastic Collection") is an Ethiopic book that includes some original sayings of the Desert Fathers and which is textually independent of the better-known Apophthegmata Patr... DRAKHT-I ASURIG Draxt ī Āsūrīg (meaning "The Assyrian Tree" or "The Babylonian Tree") is a Parthian-language poem consisting of about 120 verses and written in Book Pahlavi script. The language shows influences from ... DE DUODECIM ABUSIVIS SAECULI De duodecim abusivis saeculi (“On the Twelve Abuses of the World”), also titled simply De duodecim abusivis, is a Hiberno-Latin treatise on social and political morality written by an anonymous Irish... |  Wisdom literature is a genre of literature common in the ancient Near East. It consists of statements by sages and the wise that offer teachings about divinity and virtue. Although this genre uses tec... Wikipedia - Wisdom literatureDAILY TALESECCLESIASTES Ecclesiastes ( ih-KLEE-zee-ASS-teez; Biblical Hebrew: קֹהֶלֶת, romanized: Qōheleṯ, Ancient Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστής, romanized: Ekklēsiastēs) is one of the Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible and par... EXEMPLUM An exemplum (Latin for "example", pl. exempla, exempli gratia = "for example", abbr.: e.g.) is a moral anecdote, brief or extended, real or fictitious, used to illustrate a point. The word is also us... RIGHT GINZA The Right Ginza (Classical Mandaic: ࡂࡉࡍࡆࡀ ࡉࡀࡌࡉࡍࡀ, romanized: Ginza Yamina) is one of the two parts of the Ginza Rabba, the longest and the most important holy scripture of Mandaeism. The other part of... GNOMIC POETRY Gnomic poetry consists of meaningful sayings put into verse to aid the memory. They were known by the Greeks as gnomes (c.f. the Greek adjective γνωμικός (gnomikos) "appertaining to an opinion or apho... HANUBA HANUBI PAAN THAABA The Hanuba Hanubi Paan Thaaba (Meitei for 'Old Man and Old Woman planting Colocasia/Taro'), also known as the Hanubi Hentak! Hanuba Hentak!, is a Meitei folktale of Ancient Kangleipak (early Ma... HÁVAMÁL Hávamál (English: HAW-və-mawl; Old Norse: Hávamál, classical pron. [ˈhɒːwaˌmɒːl], Modern Icelandic pron. [ˈhauːvaˌmauːl̥], ‘Words of Hávi [the High One]’) is presented as a single poem in the C... HERMETICA The Hermetica are texts attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth. These texts may vary widely i... IBN ZAFAR AL-SIQILLI Hujjat al-Din Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Abi Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Zafar al-Siqilli (Arabic: حجة الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن أبي محمد بن محمد بن ظفر الصقلي, romanized: Ḥujjat al-Dīn Abū ‘Abd Allāh ... ISLAMIC ADVICE LITERATURE Islamic advice literature may include collections of stories or anecdotes such as legal opinion, interpretation of religious text, legal theory, guidance, consultation, or Islamic stories. Islamic adv... JEWISH CUSTOMS OF ETIQUETTE Jewish customs of etiquette, known simply as Derekh Eretz (Hebrew: דרך ארץ, lit. 'way of the land'), is understood as the order and manner of conduct of man in the presence of other people (see infra... |