A World Upturned

Commentary on and Analysis of The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

AvRoland Enmarch,University of Liverpool) Enmarch, Roland (Reader in Egyptology

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The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All is one of the major works from the golden age of Egyptian literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1980-1630 BC). The poem provides one of the most searching explorations of human motivation and divine justice to survive from Ancient Egypt, and its stark pessimism questions many of the core ideologies that underpinned the Egyptian state and monarchy. It begins with a series of laments portraying an Egypt overwhelmed by chaos and destruction, and develops into an examination of why these disasters should happen, and who bears responsibility for them: the gods, the king, or humanity. This volume provides the first full literary analysis of this poem for a century. It provides a detailed study of questions such as: its date of composition; its historicity; the identity of its protagonists and setting; its reception history within Egyptian culture; and whether it really is a unified literary composition, or a redacted collection of texts of heterogenous origin. Providing a new reading of the poem, within the cultural milieu that produced it, this volume will be essential reading for scholars and students of Ancient Egyptian literature, the Old Testament and comparative religion.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-01-22
Mått197 x 253 x 23 mm
Vikt817 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBritish Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
Antal sidor304
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780197264331

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1: Introduction2: Literary aspects of Ipuwer2.1: Description of text2.2: Survey of previous research2.3: Textual unity2.4: Dating2.5: Reception2.6: Speakers, section boundaries, and setting of the poem2.7: Genre and intertext2.8: Literary style2.9: Style, structure, and meaning2.10: Towards a reading of the poem3: Commentary3.1: Commentary on Lament I3.2: Interpretation of Lament I3.3: Commentary on Lament II3,4: Interpretation of Lament II3.5: Commentary on Lament III3.6: Interpretation of Lament III3.7: Commentary on Injunction I3.8: Interpretation of Injunction I3.9: Commentary on Injunction II3.10: Interpretation of Injunction II3.11: Commentary on Injunction III3.12: Interpretation of Injunction III3.13: Commentary on Reproach I.14: Interpretation of Reproach I3.15: Commentary on the Meditation3.16: Interpretation of the Meditation3.17: Commentary on Reply I3.18: Interpretation of Reply I3.19: Commentary on Reproach II3.20: Interpretation of Reproach II3.21: Commentary on Reply II3.22: Interpretation of Reply II3.23: Excursus: the jottings of 17A.1-34: Continuous transliteration and translation of Ipuwer

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