Amenemope was a great Egyptian prophet. [1] He influenced the concept of El Shaddai, a complex concept of God inspired by El Elyon. [2] He greatly influenced the religious faith of the Hebrews and the philosophy of the Greeks. [3] He was known as "son of man". [4]
He exalted the conscience into the supreme arbiter between good and evil, taught that sins would be punished, and proclaimed that salvation was obtained through recourse to the solar deity. [5] Mesopotamian religion entered Hebrew literature through the work of Amenemope. [6]