Ancient Near Eastern and Jewish Poetic Traditions

Poetic traditions rooted in the ancient Near East and in Jewish communities, including wisdom poetry from ancient Mesopotamia and the medieval wisdom tradition, and the Yemenite Jewish poetry that joins religious and secular compositions performed at gatherings and ceremonies. A genre belongs here when its cited article places it in an ancient Near Eastern body of verse or in Jewish poetic culture. It excludes the Arabic and Persian poetic genres, which have their own group, and Jewish devotional verse, which belongs with the religious writing groups.