"... As Amenemope is the only extra-biblical cognate related to the biblical concept of protecting the gēr alongside the widow, this study postulates, with some caution, that the Egyptian wisdom literature had some influence on Deuteronomy’s interest in adding the gēr to the widow-orphan dyad. Admittedly, Amenemope’s genre belongs to wisdom literature rather than a legal tradition; however, the mandates for the widow and the stranger in this context both relate to providing food and oil for the widow and the stranger. Lohfink posits that the widow-orphan doublet is a fixed word pair first observed in the Code of Ur-Nammu (late–3rd millennium) that Israel inherits as a dyad and which functions as a symbolic name for those in need of help. In the Covenant Code, which many scholars date before D, the widow-orphan dyad appears twice apart from any mention of the gēr. Glanville posits the reference to the pair in Exodus 22:22, 24 is ancient, predating the Exodus narrative. Further, Achenbach identifies the Covenant Code as the first time in Israelite history that the gēr are acknowledged together with the dyad as an integral part of personae miserabiles ..."