The Debate Between a Man and His Soul

A Masterpiece of Ancient Egyptian Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-19303-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 679 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East

This book is a new study of the ancient Egyptian poem known in English as The Man Who Was Tired of Life or The Dialogue of a Man and His Ba (or Soul). The composition is universally regarded as one of the masterpieces of ancient Egyptian literature. It is also one of the most difficult and continually debated, as well as being the subject of more than one hundred books and articles. The present study offers new readings and translations, along with an analysis of the text’s grammar and versification, and a complete philological apparatus.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in ancient Egyptian literature and culture as well as the history of human psychology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, James P

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literaturen des Alten Orients
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Übersetzung, Editionstechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Epigraphic Analysis
Chapter Three: Philological Analysis
Chapter Four: Grammatical Analysis
Chapter Five: Stylistic Analysis
Chapter Six: Textual Analysis

Über Autor(innen)

Allen, James P
James P. Allen is the Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University and a former curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has published extensively on ancient Egyptian language, religion, and history.