Instructions de Shuruppak — La plus ancienne sagesse écrite
הוראות שורופאק
מחבר: Tradition sumérienne attribuée à Shuruppak, père de Ziusudra (c. 2600 av. J.-C.)
דאַטע: c. 2600 av. J.-C.
אויפֿהיטונג: University of Pennsylvania Museum, Musée d'Istanbul
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Di Hanokhes fun Shuruppak zenen di eltste bokhmones-tekst fun der menshhayt — a zml-bukh fun ratsonim fun a foter tsu zayn zun, tsugereknt tsu Shuruppak, foter fun heros fun Sintflut-sumevishn Ziusudra. Dize praktishe un moralishe maksim — vegl erlikhayt, khzereshl, respekt tsu di eltern, mas-haltn — zenen di direktn ahnentshik fun der nahshteor-mizrakhlekher bokhmonesshriftn vos vet endikn in Mishlye fun Solomon un Koheles. Di paraleln zenen shtekhendik: « Zhe got zayn boreg far vemen « (cf. Mishlye 6:1), « Shlof nisht, du volt vern umgebrakht » (cf. Shmoys 20:15). Di figur fun Shuruppak, foter fun dem iberslebnshn fun der Sintflut, derkler a direktn farbind tsu der traditsye fun der Sintflut vos iz opgenumen in der Bereyshe (Noe), makedn diz tekst tsu a edies fun di tifste mesopotamishe vortslekher fun yidishn erbe.
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English
The Instructions of Shuruppak are humanity's oldest known wisdom text — advice from a father to his son, attributed to the father of the Sumerian flood hero Ziusudra. These moral maxims are the direct ancestor of biblical wisdom literature, with striking parallels to Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.