Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library write by Kim Ryholt. This book was released on 2012. Narrative Literature from the Tebtunis Temple Library available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents ten narrative texts written in the demotic script and preserved in papyri from the Tebtunis temple library (1st/2nd century AD). Eight of the texts are historical narratives which focus on the first millennium BC. Four concern prince Inaros, who rebelled against the Assyrian domination of Egypt in the 7th century, and his clan. One is about Inaros himself, while the other three take place after his death. Two other narratives mention Necho I and II of the Saite Period. The story about Necho II is particularly noteworthy, since it refers to the king as Nechepsos and, for the first time, provides us with the identity behind this name. Nechepsos is well supported as a sage king in Greek literary tradition, above all, in relation to astrology. Of the two final historical narratives, one belongs to the cycle of stories about the Heliopolitan priesthood and the other concerns the Persian occupation of Egypt in the 5th or 4th century. The volume further includes a prophecy
A Castration Story from the Tebtunis Temple Library
A Castration Story from the Tebtunis Temple Library - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Castration Story from the Tebtunis Temple Library write by Rana Sérida. This book was released on 2016-05-01. A Castration Story from the Tebtunis Temple Library available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents the first edition of a hitherto unattested narrative from the Tebtunis temple library (1st-2nd century AD). The story seems to have formed part of the so-called Inaros Cycle; it is set in the reign of king Necho I (672-664 BC), who is mainly known for his rebellion against the Assyrians, and also mentions general Anosis. The text makes repeated mention of the castration of an individual, who is made into a eunuch. Rana Sérida holds a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Copenhagen, where she is currently a postdoctoral research fellow. Her research focuses on Egyptian literary texts, particularly their utilization as markers of a collective identity.
Demotic Literary Texts from Tebtunis and Beyond
Demotic Literary Texts from Tebtunis and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demotic Literary Texts from Tebtunis and Beyond write by Joachim Friedrich Quack. This book was released on 2019. Demotic Literary Texts from Tebtunis and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Tebtunis temple library is the only ancient Egyptian temple library of which substantial remains are preserved by far the richest, single source of Egyptian literary texts. This volume contains a selection of demotic texts: a theological treatise, manuals on dream interpretation, a manual on birth prognosis, three lists of professions and plants, a list recording the titles of twenty cultic treatises, new fragments of the Great Demotic Book of Wisdom text and an astronomical text. It further includes an illustration from a manual on the pantheistic Bes and three fragments of demotic narrative of unknown origin. None of the papyri have previously been edited. "
The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus
The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus write by Christian H. Bull. This book was released on 2018-09-24. The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus, Christian H. Bull argues that the treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus reflect the spiritual exercises and ritual practices of loosely organized brotherhoods in Egypt. These small groups were directed by Egyptian priests educated in the traditional lore of the temples, but also conversant with Greek philosophy. Such priests, who were increasingly dispossessed with the gradual demise of the Egyptian temples, could find eager adherents among a Greek-speaking audience seeking for the wisdom of the Egyptian Hermes, who was widely considered to be an important source for the philosophies of Pythagoras and Plato. The volume contains a comprehensive analysis of the myths of Hermes Trismegistus, a reevaluation of the Way of Hermes, and a contextualization of this ritual tradition.
Egyptian Things
Egyptian Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Egyptian Things write by Edward William Kelting. This book was released on 2024. Egyptian Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. After the deaths of Antony and Cleopatra, Rome finally took control of Egypt. This occupation simultaneously facilitated and circumscribed the exchange of goods, people, and ideas along the paths carved across Rome's burgeoning empire. In this book, Edward Kelting sets out to recapture one of these systems of exchange: the vibrant literary tradition known as Aegyptiaca--or "Egyptian things"--in which culturally mixed authors wrote about Egypt for a Greek and Roman audience. These authors have been dismissed as not really "Egyptian," and their contemporary popularity has been ignored. But as Kelting powerfully argues, this genre in fact constitutes a vibrant intellectual tradition, developed from heterogeneous influences but deeply engaged with Egypt's pharaonic past. In contrast to usual narratives of Roman domination, Kelting uncovers a complex project of political engagement and cultural translation in which Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all participated.
