Religious writing of the ancient world that teaches through sayings, visions or the retelling of creation, including wisdom literature of the ancient Near East in which sages teach about virtue and the divine, apocalyptic literature in which a supernatural being reveals the end of the age, and the hexaemeron that treats the six days of creation. A genre belongs here when its cited article places it among sacred, teaching or revelatory writing of Judaism, Christianity or the wider ancient Near East. It excludes liturgical books, sermons and church letters.
Scriptural, Wisdom and Visionary Literature
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Apocalypse (Wikipedia)
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In apocalypse, a supernatural being reveals cosmic mysteries or the past to a human intermediary.
Wisdom Literature (Wikipedia)
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Wisdom literature is a genre of literature common in the ancient Near East.
Hexaemeron (Wikipedia)
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In a second sense, the Genesis creation narrative inspired a didactic genre of Jewish and Christian literature known as the Hexaemeral literature.
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