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Author: James P. Allen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 1107087430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides original texts as well as translations of the major works of Middle Kingdom literature.
Author: Daniel L. Selden
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2013-02-05
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 0520275462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the oldest known recorded languages—Hieroglyphic Egyptian. Unlike other approaches, it is geared toward learning to read one of the masterpieces of Middle Egyptian literature, the story “Shipwrecked Sailor,” written around 2200 bce. The text’s eighteen lessons–organized around such topics as the body, flora, fauna, titles, administration, religion, sexuality, and warfare—cover all the basic grammar and syntax of Middle Egyptian. The book includes exercises for each chapter, sign lists, Egyptian/English and English/Egyptian dictionaries defining all the words and phrases used in the lessons, and a new edition of the tale “Shipwrecked Sailor” with facing commentary. Although the overall approach is literary, Hieroglyphic Egyptian can also be used as an introduction to reading other material, such as biographical inscriptions, religious texts, historical annals, and mathematical or medical papyri. The text is suitable for classroom use, as well as for those who want to learn independently.
Author: James P. Allen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-24
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 1139917099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiddle Egyptian introduces the reader to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It contains twenty-six lessons, exercises (with answers), a list of hieroglyphic signs, and a dictionary. It also includes a series of twenty-six essays on the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian history, society, religion, literature, and language. Grammar lessons and cultural essays allows users not only to read hieroglyphic texts but also to understand them, providing the foundation for understanding texts on monuments and reading great works of ancient Egyptian literature. This third edition is revised and reorganized, particularly in its approach to the verbal system, based on recent advances in understanding the language. Illustrations enhance the discussions, and an index of references has been added. These changes and additions provide a complete and up-to-date grammatical description of the classical language of ancient Egypt for specialists in linguistics and other fields.
Author: Miriam Lichtheim
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2006-03-04
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0520248449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"First published in 1973 - and followed by Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 - this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of the literary forms of one of the world's earliest civilizations. Volume III spans the last millennium of Pharaonic civilization, from the tenth century B.C. to the beginning of the Christian era. It features a new foreword by Joseph G. Manning"--Publisher's description.
Author: R. B. Parkinson
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVoices from Ancient Egypt is an anthology presenting translations of sixty documents from a golden age of ancient Egyptian culture (c. 2081 - 1600 BC). The documents illustrate all aspects of life and the place of literacy in an early civilisation. The 'voices' range from the high formal literature of religious rituals and royal monuments to the hurried requests of the bureaucrats and the jokes of harrassed workmen. They tell a tale not only of the intellectual beliefs of the elite, but of family feuds, love and murder, as well as the pastoral dreams of a society trying to attain its vision of absolute order in a chaotic universe. This volume is a reissue of the valuable introduction to ancient Egyptian literature, first published in 1991.
Author: Miriam Lichtheim
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2006-04-03
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780520248427
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Praise for the first editions: " "Concise, lucid, and altogether interesting . . ..The notes on the individual texts are unfailingly illuminating."--"Books Abroad" (now "World Literature Today")
Author: James P. Allen
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9781316095881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James P. Allen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-07-11
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1107032466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive study of how the phonology and grammar of ancient Egyptian changed over four millennia of language history.
Author: R. B. Parkinson
Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781845537708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK[Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt] certainly represents a landmark. It is the first monograph devoted to an integral study and interpretation of the entire corpus of literature preserved from the Egyptian Middle Kingdom.'Joachim Quack, Professor of Egyptology, University of Heidelberg.
Author: James P. Allen
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Published: 2007-08-30
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 1589836782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pyramid Texts are the oldest body of extant literature from ancient Egypt. First carved on the walls of the burial chambers in the pyramids of kings and queens of the Old Kingdom, they provide the earliest comprehensive view of the way in which the ancient Egyptians understood the structure of the universe, the role of the gods, and the fate of human beings after death. Their importance lies in their antiquity and in their endurance throughout the entire intellectual history of ancient Egypt. This volume contains the complete translation of the Pyramid Texts, including new texts recently discovered and published. It incorporates full restorations and readings indicated by post-Old Kingdom copies of the texts and is the first translation that presents the texts in the order in which they were meant to be read in each of the original sources.
