Show the oldest book the oldest book in the world to which a positive data late can be assigned is an assortment of proverbs somewhat after the style of the proverb proverbs collected by solomon the work Is accredited to atah hosep an Egypt egyptian larl king and Egyptologist i assign to it an all antiquity of ut at least 13 C abraham was called to leave his home in ur of the chaldee Chal deet 1921 1021 B C so that tills this volume was written 1100 years before the bc glnn of jewish history the deluge is placed by most chro at B C 2348 2343 eo so the book if it its dating Is correct must have been written before the flood methuselah was born B C so that this papyrus waa was prepared and these proverbs were collect collected dd when the oldest man on record was a lively youns young fellow of years |