A Demotic Letter To Thoth
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A Demotic Letter To Thoth
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Author : George R. Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
A Demotic Letter To Thoth written by George R. Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Egyptian language categories.
Hathor And Thoth
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Author : Claas Jouco Bleeker
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1973
Hathor And Thoth written by Claas Jouco Bleeker and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Religion categories.
The Demotic Letter
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Author : Mark Depauw
language : en
Publisher: Gisela Zauzich Verlag
Release Date : 2006
The Demotic Letter written by Mark Depauw and has been published by Gisela Zauzich Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Ancient Egyptian Book Of Thoth
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Author : Richard Jasnow
language : en
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Release Date : 2005
The Ancient Egyptian Book Of Thoth written by Richard Jasnow and has been published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Book of Thoth categories.
The composition, which the editors entitle the "Book of Thoth", is preserved on over forty Graeco-Roman Period papyri from collections in Berlin, Copenhagen, Florence, New Haven, Paris, and Vienna. The central witness is a papyrus of fifteen columns in the Berlin Museum. Written almost entirely in the Demotic script, the Book of Thoth is probably the product of scribes of the "House of Life", the temple scriptorium. It comprises largely a dialogue between a deity, usually called "He-who-praises-knowledge" (presumably Thoth himself) and a mortal, "He-who-loves-knowledge". The work covers such topics as the scribal craft, sacred geography, the underworld, wisdom, prophecy, animal knowledge, and temple ritual. Particularly remarkable is one section (the "Vulture Text") in which each of the 42 nomes of Egypt is identified with a vulture. The language is poetic; the lines are often clearly organized into verses. The subject-matter, dialogue structure, and striking phraseology raise many issues of scholarly interest; especially intriguing are the possible connections between this Egyptian work, in which Thoth is called "thrice-great", and the classical Hermetic Corpus, in which Hermes Trismegistos plays the key role. The first volume comprises interpretative essays, discussion of specific points such as the manuscript tradition, script, and language. The core of the publication is the transliteration of the Demotic text, translation, and commentary. A consecutive translation, glossary, bibliography, and indices conclude the first volume. The second volume contains photographs of the papyri, almost all of which reproduce their original size.
The Heavenly Book Motif In Judeo Christian Apocalypses 200 Bce 200 Ce
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Author : Leslie Baynes
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012
The Heavenly Book Motif In Judeo Christian Apocalypses 200 Bce 200 Ce written by Leslie Baynes and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Religion categories.
The first full-length analysis of the heavenly book motif in English, this study highlights a vital element of early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature. Through multiple intertextual readings, it demonstrates that for the ancients heavenly writing had life or death consequences.
Orality And Literacy In The Demotic Tales
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Author : Jacqueline E. Jay
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-06-10
Orality And Literacy In The Demotic Tales written by Jacqueline E. Jay and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-10 with History categories.
In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of the oral tradition that must have run alongside it. The monograph’s main focus is the intersection of orality and literacy in the extremely rich corpus of Demotic narrative literature surviving from the Greco-Roman Period. The many texts discussed include the tales of the Inaros and Setna Cycles, the Myth of the Sun’s Eye, and the Dream of Nectanebo. Jacqueline Jay examines these Demotic tales not only in conjunction with earlier Egyptian literature, but also with the worldwide tradition of orally composed and performed discourse.
The Tradition Of Hermes Trismegistus
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Author : Christian H. Bull
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-09-24
The Tradition Of Hermes Trismegistus written by Christian H. Bull and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-24 with Religion categories.
In The Tradition of Hermes Trismegistus , Christian H. Bull argues that the actual authors behind the treatises attributed to Hermes Trismegistus were Hellenized Egyptian priests in charge of small groups practicing spiritual exercises, initiatory rituals, and devotional hymns.
Petitioning Osiris
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Author : Edward O. D. Love
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-12-05
Petitioning Osiris written by Edward O. D. Love and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-05 with History categories.
Petitioning Osiris re-edits, re-analyses, and re-contextualises the "Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus" and "Curse of Artemisia" – written petitions to different manifestations of Osiris – among the Letters to Gods in Demotic, Greek, and Old Coptic from Egypt. The textual traditions of the Letters to Gods, to the Dead, and Oracle Questions which evidence that ritual tradition of petitioning deities are contextualised among contemporary textual traditions, such as Letters and Petitions to Human Recipients, and Documents of Self-Dedication, and compared to later ritual traditions such as proactive and reactive curses without and with judicial features (so-called Prayers for Justice) in Greek and Coptic from Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean. As with all other Letters to Gods, the Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and Curse of Artemisia evidence not only the struggles and aspirations of their petitioners, but also the way in which they conceptualised that they could bring about desired outcomes in their lived experience by engaging divine agency through a reciprocal relationship of human-divine interaction. Petitioning Osiris therefore provides a starting point and springboard for readers interested in these, or comparable, textual and ritual traditions from the Ancient World.
Ars Ma And His World The Bodleian Letters In Context
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Author : Christopher J. Tuplin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2021-01-29
Ars Ma And His World The Bodleian Letters In Context written by Christopher J. Tuplin and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-29 with History categories.
During the Second World War the Bodleian Library in Oxford acquired a set of Aramaic letters, eight sealings, and the two leather bags in which the sealed letters were once stored. The letters concern the affairs of Arsāma, satrap of Egypt in the later fifth century. Taken with other material associated with him (mostly in Aramaic, Demotic Egyptian, and Akkadian), they illuminate the Achaemenid world of which Arsāama was a privileged member and evoke a wide range of social, economic, cultural, organizational, and political perspectives, from multi-lingual communication, storage and disbursement of resources, and satrapal remuneration, to cross-regional ethnic movement, long-distance travel, religious practice, and iconographic projection of ideological messages. Particular highlights include a travel authorization (the only example of something implicit in numerous Persepolis documents), texts about the religious life of the Judaean garrison at Elephantine, Arsāma's magnificent seal (a masterpiece of Achaemenid glyptic, inherited from a son of Darius I), and echoes of temporary disturbances to Persian management of Egypt. But what is also impressive is the underlying sense of systematic coherence founded on and expressed in the use of formal, even formalized, written communication as a means of control. The Arsāma dossier is not alone in evoking that sense, but its size, variety, and focus upon a single individual give it a unique quality. Though this material has not been hidden from view, it has been insufficiently explored: it is the purpose of the three volumes of Arsāma and his World: The Bodleian Letters in Context to provide the fullest presentation and historical contextualization of this extraordinary cache yet attempted. Volume I presents and translates the letters alongside a detailed line-by-line commentary, while Volume II reconstructs the two seals that made the clay bullae that sealed the letters, with special attention to Arsāma's magnificent heirloom seal. Volume III comprises a series of thematic essays which further explore the administrative, economic, military, ideological, religious, and artistic environment to which Arsāma and the letters belonged.
Acts Of The Seventh International Conference Of Demotic Studies
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Author : Kim Ryholt
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2002
Acts Of The Seventh International Conference Of Demotic Studies written by Kim Ryholt and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Foreign Language Study categories.
This book contains contributions from K.T. Zauzich, H.S. Smith, B. Porten, U. Kaplony-Heckel, R.K. Ritner, S. Allam, M. Chauveau, and D. Devauchelle.