Egypt
- Book Review: The Healing Power Of Ancient Literature
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Lun Yee Too) Stephen Bertman, Lois Parker (ed.), The Healing Power of Ancient Literature. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. The Healing Power of Ancient Literature edited by Stephen Bertman and Lois...
- Book Review: Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Peter C. Nadig) K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5, Setnakht, Ramesses III and Contemporaries. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. ISBN 9780631184317. The Liverpudlian Egyptologist and...
- Book Review: Ramesside Inscriptions
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Peter C. Nadig, Freie Universität Berlin) K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5, Setnakht, Ramesses III and Contemporaries. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. xxiv, 523. ISBN 9780631184317....
- New Book: From An Antique Land
Rowman and Littlefield From an Antique Land: An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature. Edited by Carl S. Ehrlich One of the chapters in this book focuses on Egyptian literature. Many of the world's first written records have been found in...
- A Visit To Memphis And Saqqara In 1897
http://snipurl.com/jlkb "You need a lot of credulity when you go to Egypt, and a superb contempt for anything less than three thousand years old. If you don’t have these, you spoil your holiday by questioning the wonderful stones told by dragomans and...
Egypt
Book Review: Ancient Egyptian Literature by John L. Foster
There's a short review of the above book on the About.com website by K. Kris Hirst, from which the following is a brief extract (Book details: John L. Foster (translator). 2001. Ancient Egyptian Literature. University of Texas Press, Austin. 229 pp; four appendices, including a chronology, a glossary, a list of hieroglyphic passages, a list of sources; and an index.):
I think I'll go home and lie very stillfeigning terminal illness.Then the neighbors will all troop over to stare,my love, perhaps, among them.How she'll smile while the specialistssnarl in their teeth!She perfectly well knows what ails meThat love song, written in the Ramessid period of ancient Egypt (ca. 1292-1070 BC), is as fresh and funny as if it were written yesterday, rather than over three thousand years ago. This is but one of numerous poems brought to us over the centuries by John Foster, research associate at the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. The poems are a selection from Foster's earlier comprehensive translations of Egyptian literature, and they have been collected from papyri (paper scrolls), ostraca (etched or painted ceramic sherds), and from the walls of temples, pyramids, and tombs.
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- Book Review: The Healing Power Of Ancient Literature
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Lun Yee Too) Stephen Bertman, Lois Parker (ed.), The Healing Power of Ancient Literature. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. The Healing Power of Ancient Literature edited by Stephen Bertman and Lois...
- Book Review: Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Peter C. Nadig) K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5, Setnakht, Ramesses III and Contemporaries. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. ISBN 9780631184317. The Liverpudlian Egyptologist and...
- Book Review: Ramesside Inscriptions
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Peter C. Nadig, Freie Universität Berlin) K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5, Setnakht, Ramesses III and Contemporaries. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. xxiv, 523. ISBN 9780631184317....
- New Book: From An Antique Land
Rowman and Littlefield From an Antique Land: An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature. Edited by Carl S. Ehrlich One of the chapters in this book focuses on Egyptian literature. Many of the world's first written records have been found in...
- A Visit To Memphis And Saqqara In 1897
http://snipurl.com/jlkb "You need a lot of credulity when you go to Egypt, and a superb contempt for anything less than three thousand years old. If you don’t have these, you spoil your holiday by questioning the wonderful stones told by dragomans and...