Legend of Keret
Epic of Kirta
Ancient Near East
Then Keret the Noble raises his voice and says, “Listen, Lady Hurriya. Prepare a lamb so I may eat, a yearling so I may dine.” Lady Hurriya listens. She prepares a lamb and he eats, a yearling and he dines. After one day, and then another, Keret returns to his former place. He sits again on the throne of kingship, on the dais, the seat of authority. Yassib also sits in the palace, and his inward parts instruct him. He says to himself, “Go to your father, Yassib. Speak to him and say: Listen, Keret the Noble, and hear me. You’ve done wrong. You were supposed to judge the case of the widow, to defend the cause of the wretched. But now you’ve become like a brother to the sickbed, a companion of suffering. Step down from kingship. I will be king. With your authority, I will sit on the throne.”
Date: 1500 B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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Psalm 16:7
Hebrew Bible
5 The Lord is the portion of my possession and my cup9; you make my future secure. 6 It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land. 7 I will praise the Lord who guides me; yes, during the night my kidneys instruct me15. 8 I set the Lord before me continually16; because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Date: 6th-3rd Centuries B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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"... This reflects a moment of divine prompting, comparable to Psalm 16:7. Some, like Kutscher, suggest a more mythic reading, taking it as a reference to “his jinn or personal demon,” a supernatural agent of insight or agitation acting within him ..."
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