TO THE QUESTION ABOUT PARALLELS BETWEEN THE BIBLICAL BOOK OF THE PARABLES OF SOLOMONOV AND THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN "TEACHING OF AMENEMOPE"

Priest Georgy Andrianov

PhD in Theology, Rector of the Kostroma Theological Seminary

Kostroma Theological Seminary, Kostroma, Russia

Email: rector44@mail.ru

Issue: № 3 (15), 2021

Pages: 11

Annotation

The article provides an overview of the current situation with respect to the well-known similarities in the biblical Book of Proverbs of Solomon and in the ancient Egyptian treatise "The Teachings of Amenemopa". The author in the form of a table gives the most complete list of parallels with the names of some researchers pointing to these places. For a comprehensive assessment of the situation, the table is provided with several translations of sources. The text of the article describes a brief background of the problem and outlines the existing points of view.

Keywords

Bible, Book of Proverbs of Solomon, Teachings of Amenemope, Ancient Egypt. literary parallels, Bible translations, Rev. Makariy Glukharev, biblical criticism, didactic literature, genre of teachings, Egyptology.

For citation

Andrianov G.V, priest. On parallels between the biblical Book of Proverbs and the ancient Egyptian "Instruction of Amenemope" // Ipatievsky vestnik. – 2021. – № 3. – Р. 11–35.