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    Wisdom of Amenemope
    Wisdom of Amenemope
    Wisdom of Amenemope
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    Wisdom of Amenemope

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    The Wisdom of Amenemope (also called the Wisdom of Amenemopet, Instruction of Amenemope, or Instructions of Amenemopet) is an ancient Egyptian text that has mostly survived to the present, dating to sometime between 1550 and 1350 BC. Egyptian wisdom literature served as an inspiration for several ancient Israelite books,

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigital Ink Productions
    Release dateMar 28, 2020
    ISBN9781989852064
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      Wisdom of Amenemope - Scriptural Research Institute

      Wisdom of Amenemope

      SCRIPTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

      Published by Digital Ink Productions, 2023

      COPYRIGHT

      While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

      Wisdom of Amenemope

      Digital edition. November 6, 2023

      Copyright © 2023 Scriptural Research Institute.

      ISBN: 978-1-989852-06-4

      The Wisdom of Amenemope was written by Amenemope son of Kanakht sometime between 1550 and 1350 BC in Egyptian. This English translation was created by the Scriptural Research Institute in 2020 and 2022.

      The image used for the cover is an artistic reinterpretation of ‘City entrance along the Nile’ by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi, painted circa 1890.

      Note: The notes for this book include multiple ancient scripts. For your convenience, fonts correctly depicting these scripts are embedded in the ebook. If your reader does not support embedded fonts, you will need to install Unicode fonts that cover the ranges for Akkadian Cuneiform, Coptic, Demotic, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Greek, Hebrew, Phoenicia, and Ugaritic Cuneiform on your reader manually, or you may see blank areas, question marks, or squares where the scripts are used. The Noto fonts from Google cover most of the scripts used, however, will not depict Egyptian hieroglyphs correctly due to current limitations in Unicode.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Forward

      Amenemope’s Titles

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

      Chapter 15

      Chapter 16

      Chapter 17

      Chapter 18

      Chapter 19

      Chapter 20

      Chapter 21

      Chapter 22

      Chapter 23

      Chapter 24

      Chapter 25

      Chapter 26

      Chapter 27

      Chapter 28

      Chapter 29

      Chapter 30

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      The Wisdom of Amenemope is an ancient Egyptian text that has mostly survived to the present, dating to sometime between 1550 and 1350 BC. It is also called the Wisdom (or Instructions) of Amenemopet, depending on how the Egyptian name Amen-em-ope (𓇋㌁㎒) is rendered. Egyptian wisdom literature served as an inspiration for several ancient Israelite books, including Deuteronomy, Psalms, Proverbs, and the Wisdom of Joshua ben Sira. The most significant influence of Amenemope on the Israelite texts is found in the book of Proverbs, which appears to be directly influenced by Amenemope. The Wisdom of Amenemope was lost for over 2000 years, however, in the late 1800s, several copies were found by Egyptologists both on papyrus and tablets. The various copies all dated to the 21st through 27th dynasties of Egypt, circa 1170 to 500 BC, meaning the Wisdom of Amenemope was in circulation for over 600 years before being lost. It is not clear when exactly it was lost, but it was no longer in circulation by the time the Septuagint was translated at the Library of Alexandria circa 250 BC, and there is no evidence the Library ever acquired a copy of it.

      Its date of origin is equally obscure, and a wide variety of dates have been proposed. The text refers repeatedly to Aten along with Ra, which strongly implies a pre-Akhenaten origin. During the 18th dynasty, circa 1350 to 1335 BC, Pharaoh Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten and mandated that everyone in Egypt had to worship Aten (𓇋㍙𓇳), the solar disk. Before this, Aten was worshiped as one of many gods, and viewed as one aspect of Ra (㌟㌠), the sun god, specifically the dawn. Once Atenism became the state religion, the other gods

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