James P. Allen (Rhode Island Brown University)

Middle Egyptian Literature

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This companion volume to the third edition of the author's popular Middle Egyptian contains eight literary works from the Middle Kingdom, the golden age of Middle Egyptian literature. Included are the compositions widely regarded as the pinnacle of Egyptian literary arts, by the Egyptians themselves and by modern readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 732g
• ISBN-13: 9781107456075
• ISBN-10: 110745607X
• Artikelnr.: 41467288

Autorenporträt

James P. Allen is the Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University. He is a former curator of Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and president of the International Association of Egyptologists. His previous publications include Genesis in Egypt: The Philosophy of Ancient Egyptian Creation Accounts (1989), The Heqanakht Papyri (2002), The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (2005), The Debate between a Man and his Soul (2010), The Ancient Egyptian Language: An Historical Study (2013), and three editions of Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 3rd edition (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Text 1. The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor
Text 2. The Story of Sinuhe
Text 3. The Loyalist Instruction
Text 4. The Instructions of Kagemni's Father and Ptahhotep
Text 5. The Discourses of the Eloquent Peasant
Text 6. The Debate between a Man and his Soul
Text 7. The Herdsman's Tale
Text 8. Hymns to Senwosret III.