Buch, Egyptian, Englisch, 391 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 664 g
Buch, Egyptian, Englisch, 391 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 664 g
Reihe: Griffith Institute Publication
ISBN: 978-0-900416-85-9
Verlag: GRIFFITH INST
Friedrich Junge's pioneering introduction to the grammar of Late
Egyptian, the language of the New Kingdom, principally of the Ramessid
Period (ca. 1350-1000 BCE), fills a longstanding gap in teaching works
for Ancient Egyptian. This English translation of the second German
edition makes the work available to a wide audience.
The
author devotes special attention to the language of papyri and ostraca
texts and documents of everyday life without neglecting the style and
language of belles lettres and monumental inscriptions. Through copious
examples, exercises, and bibliographical information, the reader is
familiarized with all the major text categories. The book assumes some
knowledge of Middle Egyptian.
The presentation moves from
the distinctive features of Late Egyptian writing and orthography,
through morphology and the structures of the simple and compound clauses
and sentences, to larger linguistic units. Throughout, the forms of Late
Egyptian are set in context in the history of the language, relating
them to Middle Egyptian forms on the one hand and to Demotic and Coptic
forms on the other. Detailed comments are given both for the examples
and for the exercises that close the main chapters.
An
appendix offers a preliminary synthesis of formulas in oaths and
letters, units of value including weights and measures, and the
organization of the necropolis administration at Deir el-Medina, the
workmen's village at Thebes from which vast numbers of sources were
recovered. An extensive apparatus of bibliography, vocabulary, and
indexes provides easy access to the content of the grammar and to
factual information.
In this second English edition the
author has made numerous corrections to the text while incorporating
where possible points raised by reviewers.
