Also known as:
Amenemope, Amenemopet, Instructions of Amenemope, The Wisdom of Amenemope
AMEN-EM-OPE. - Egyptian high official, son of Kanccht, resident at Persepolis, who lived, according to A. Erman, H. O. Lange, R. Griffith, around 1000 B.C. To "the youngest of his sons," Hor-em-machem, a priest in the temple of Min, he addressed a gnomic book, which stands out for the nobility of its moral-religious doctrine. The Wisdom of A. arouses the greatest interest for its resemblance to the collection of Proverbs (v.) 22:17-24:22; the undisputed affinity seems due, not to filiation, but to dependence on a common source.
Thus P. Dhorme, in Revue Biblique, 38 (1929), pp. 622-624, and H. Duesberg, who admit a common source for the two collections of sayings, without being able to determine whether this source was Hebrew or Egyptian. Almost all the "critics" (cf. A. Mallon) maintain instead, after A. Erman, the dependence of Proverbs on A. Nor is there lacking one who holds the dependence of A. on Proverbs to be possible: R. O. Kevin, The Wisdom of Amen-em-ape and its possible dependence upon the Hebrew Book of Proverbs, in Journal of the Soc. of Oriental Research, 14 (1930), pp. 115-57.
The text, written in hieratic (551 lines in 27 columns), is found in papyrus no. 10474 of the British Museum. The work is divided into 30 chapters (called "houses") and forms a complete whole. First published by Sir E. A. W. Budge (v.) in 1923, it was translated into various languages, and into Latin by A. Mallon.
Bibliography10 worksE. A. W. Budge, The Teaching of Amenem-Apet, son of Kanehht, London 1924; A. Erman, Eine ägyptische Quelle der Sprüche Salonas, in Akadem. S
BIBL.: E. A. W. Budge, The Teaching of Amenem-Apet, son of Kanehht, London 1924; A. Erman, Eine ägyptische Quelle der Sprüche Salonas, in Akadem. Sitzungsberichte Berlin, 1924, pp. 86-93; H. Gressmann, Die neugefundene Lehre des A. und die vorexilische Spruchdichtung Israels, in Zeitschrift für die alttest. Wissenschaft, 42 (1924), pp. 272-96; H. O. Lange, Das Weisheitsbuch des A., Copenhagen 1925; R. Griffith, The Teaching of Amenophis, the Son of Kanehht, in Journal of Egypt. Archeol., 12 (1926), pp. 191-231; A. Mallon, La « Sagesse » de l'égyptien A. et les Proverbes, in Biblica, 8 (1927), pp. 3-30; G. Lambert, De fortibus aegyptiacis Librorum Sapientialium, in Verbum Domini, 71 (1931), pp. 121-28; E. Suys, La théologie d'A., in Miscellanea Biblica, II, Rome 1934, pp. 3-36; H. Duesberg, Les Scribes inspirés, I, Paris 1938, pp. 64 ff., 83-123, 459-74; A. Brunet, La sagesse d'A., in Sciences ecclésiastiques, 1 (1948), pp. 19-40.
Romeo, Antonino. “Amen-Em-Ope.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 1032–1033. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/amen-em-ope.
MLA
Romeo, Antonino. “Amen-Em-Ope.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 1032–1033. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/amen-em-ope.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_amen_em_ope,
author = {Romeo, Antonino},
title = {Amen-Em-Ope},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {1032--1033},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/amen-em-ope}
}
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