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Voices 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 ony 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. Table of Contents Introduction; The Intellectual Setting of Cosmos and State; The King; The Life of the Land; Religious Life; The Other Life; Epilogue; Glossary; Bibliography.
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Series Editor A. J. Heisserer, University of Oklahoma
Advisory Board
Ernst Badian, Harvard University
David F. Bright, Iowa State University
Nancy Demand, Indiana University
Elaine Fantham, Princeton University
R. M. Frazer, Tulane University
Ronald J. Leprohon, University of Toronto
Robert A. Moysey, University of Mississippi
Helen F. North, Swarthmore College
Robert J. Smutny, University of the Pacific
Eva Stehle, University of Maryland at College Park
A. Geoffrey Woodhead, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge/Ohio State University
John Wright, Northwestern University
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Voices from Ancient Egypt
An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings
R. B. Parkinson
University of Oklahoma Press : Norman
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To my parents
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 91-7250
ISBN 0-8061-2362-1
University of Oklahoma Press edition published by special arrangement with British Museum Press, London. Copyright 1991 by R. B. Parkinson All rights reserved. First printing.
Voices from Ancient Egypt is Volume 9 of the Oklahoma Series in Classical Culture.
Printed and bound in Great Britain
Cover and page 3 Painting of a scribe on an 11th-Dynasty model granary (J. Bourriau, Pharaohs and Mortals, Cambridge, 1988, 86, 1045).
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
7
Introduction
The Historical Setting
8
The Nature of theWritings
13
The Script and Its Development
A Survey of the Uses of Writing
The Nature of theAnthology
Technical Note
The Writings
The Intellectual Setting of Cosmos and State
1 The Order of the Creator: Coffin Text Spell 1130
32
2 A Vision of Chaos: From the 'Prophecy of Neferti'
34
3 An Exile's Longing for the State: From the 'Tale of Sinuhe'
36
The King
4 The King and His Cosmic Role: 'The King As Sun-priest'
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