the works purposefully represent themselves as first-person accounts of an event of significance from which an audience is supposed to learn some important information, whether the "truth" of historical events, a religious moral, or simply some lesson which was thought useful to those hearing the tales
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Truths Wrapped in Fiction: Mesopotamian Naru Literature - Ancient History Encyclopediater is legendary or even fictitious. (93) Scholars continually debate whether such stories should rightly be called "Naru literature" or "fictitious autobiography" but, whichever term one uses, <span>the works purposefully represent themselves as first-person accounts of an event of significance from which an audience is supposed to learn some important information, whether the "truth" of historical events, a religious moral, or simply some lesson which was thought useful to those hearing the tales. The term "Naru literature" comes from "naru", which is explained by scholar Gerdien Jonker: The word naru is used as a name for various objects, originally boundary stones, memorial st Summary
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