The craft of a good scribe. History, narrative and meaning in the 'First tale of Setne Khaemwas' /

The craft of a good scribe. History, narrative and meaning in the 'First tale of Setne Khaemwas' /

In The Craft of a Good Scribe , Steve Vinson offers a comprehensive study of the Demotic Egyptian First Tale of Setne Khaemwas (Third Century BCE), the first to appear since 1900. \'First Setne\' is the most important extant Demotic literary text, and among the most important fictional com...

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Main Author: Vinson, Steve.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2017.

Series: Harvard Egyptological Studies 3.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004327917.

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Egyptian language > Demotic, ca. 650 B.C.-450 A.D. > Texts > History and criticism.
Egyptian literature > History and criticism.
Egyptian literature > Translations into English.

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Call Number: PJ1803 .V56 2017

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Dedication
  • Abbreviations
  • History
  • A Work of Unexpected Quality
  • The Mask of Khaemwas
  • An Unfathomable Snare of the Evil One
  • An Excellently Weird and Romantic Story
  • From Daffodils to Derrida
  • Narrative and Meaning
  • The First Tale of Setne Khaemwas
  • Repetition, Mirroring and mise en abyme
  • Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo
  • At What is It That He Gazed?
  • Ihweret, Tabubue and the "Magic Book of Thoth"
  • Plates.