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ISBN13: | 9781108083225 |
ISBN10: | 1108083226 |
Binding: | Paperback |
No. of pages: | 150 pages |
Size: | 234x156 mm |
Language: | English |
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A Comparative Study of the Literatures of Egypt, Palestine and Mesopotamia
Egypt's Contribution to the Literature of the Ancient World
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 31 July 2020
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Short description:
This 1931 book argues that recently rediscovered ancient Egyptian and Babylonian literatures were influential forerunners of the Old Testament.
Long description:
The Egyptologist Eric Peet (1882-1934), whose works on the prehistory of Italy and the cemeteries of Abydos are also reissued in this series, published this book, based on a series of three lectures delivered at the British Academy in 1929 on ancient literature of the Near East, in 1931. It examines the claims of Egyptian and Babylonian literature - rediscovered less than a century earlier - to be considered as the influential forerunners of the Hebrew literature of the Old Testament, composed up to a millennium later, and, by this argument, not suddenly arising as an isolated phenomenon. As Peet remarks in his first lecture, his aim is to persuade Old Testament scholars that 'Egyptian literature is worthy of far more attention ... than it has hitherto received'. Further work on ancient Egyptian grammar, and better translations as the texts become better understood, are, he believes, a prerequisite for useful comparative analysis.
Table of Contents:
Preface; Lecture I; Lecture II; Lecture III.