Teaching Morality in Antiquity: Wisdom Texts, Oral Traditions, and Images

The eighteen articles collected in this volume are the results of the international workshop, Teaching Morality in Antiquity: Wisdom Texts, Oral Traditions, and Images, held at the Bibliotheca Albertina of the University of Leipzig between November 29th and December 1st, 2016 with the financial support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. During the workshop, fruitful discussions on diverse issues related to the theme wisdom texts and morality developed regarding biblical wisdom texts and their parallels from the ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, and the ancient Levant - more specifically: moral messages and rhetoric in wisdom texts; the dissemination of wisdom teachings; teachings about the divine realm as the core of moral principles or human social order; visualization of divine authority; questions of theodicy; and modern analyses of ancient morality through the eyes of cognitive science.