Ancient text
Instruction of Amenemope
An Egyptian instructional text organised in numbered chapters, addressed to a son and concerned with conduct, speech, honesty in trade, and the treatment of the poor.
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Source- Culture
- Egyptian
- Language
- Egyptian
- Approximate date
- New Kingdom Egypt
- Corpus
- ane
- Review status
- in_review
Relationships to biblical passages
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Both belong to the ancient Near Eastern instruction genre and share subject matter including honest measures, restraint in speech, and treatment of the poor. The relationship between this work and the Proverbs material is a long-standing scholarly question; CodexTrace records the generic and thematic similarity and does not adjudicate dependence, which would require cited scholarship that has not been curated here.
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