Ludlul bēl nēmeqi ("I Will Praise the Lord of Wisdom"), known as The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer, is an Ancient Mesopotamian poem composed in Akkadian in c. 1307–1282 BC. An example of wisdom literature, it considers the unjust suffering of a just man—the author—who is afflicted, and who begins to question the problem of evil and the nature of the cosmic order. The work may be a hymn of thanksgiving to the god Marduk for recovery from illness.
Ludlul bēl nēmeqi ("I Will Praise the Lord of Wisdom"), known as The Poem of the Righteous Sufferer, is an Ancient Mesopotamian poem composed in Akkadian in c. 1307–1282 BC. An example of wisdom literature, it considers the unjust suffering of a just man—the author—who is afflicted, and who begins to question the problem of evil and the nature of the cosmic order. The work may be a hymn of thanksgiving to the god Marduk for recovery from illness.
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