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Шаблон:Short descriptionCounsels of Wisdom is a piece of Babylonian wisdom literature written in AkkadianШаблон:Sfn containing moral exhortations.Шаблон:Sfn It is composed primarily of two-line units,Шаблон:Sfn without sections.Шаблон:Sfn A translation of extant portions of the text was published in Шаблон:Harvnb. Existing manuscripts are fragmentary, but the original was estimated to be about 160 lines.Шаблон:Sfn

Date of authorship

Scholars disagree on the date of the work. Gemser and Bohl placed it in the First Dynasty,[1] but Lambert believes it should be dated to the Kassite period.Шаблон:Sfn The work is attested primarily by a stone tablet written in Late Babylonian script.Шаблон:Sfn

Comparison with other wisdom literature

The text is addressed to "my son", which may be a physical son, a student, a successor, or a trope of the genre, as it is in later wisdom literature.Шаблон:Sfn Scholars have observed several pieces of ancient wisdom literature to be similar, including the Instructions of Shuruppak, Counsels of a Pessimist, and the Hymn to Šamaš (See Shamash). Together these works were an ancient genre.Шаблон:Sfn Similarities have been noticed with the Book of Proverbs, but no literary dependence has been found.[2] The Counsels of Wisdom is believed to have been somewhat popular in its time, since fragments of this passage are quoted in other extant works.Шаблон:Sfn

Kindness to Evildoers

Biblical scholar John Nolland sees a passage in the Counsels of Wisdom as a possible precursor to Jesus' command to "love your enemies": "Do not return evil to the man who disputes with you; requite with kindness your evil-doer... smile on your adversary."[3]

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  1. Шаблон:Cite journal
  2. Шаблон:Cite book
  3. Nolland, John. The Gospel of Matthew: a commentary on the Greek text. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2005 pg. 267