Biographical texts from Ramesside Egypt.9789004146815 Biographical texts from Ramesside Egypt. Frood, Elizabeth. BRILL 2007 301 pages $142.00 Hardcover Writings from the ancient world; 26 DT87 Here 45 late Bronze Age Bronze Age, period in the development of technology when metals were first used regularly in the manufacture of tools and weapons. Pure copper and bronze, an alloy of copper and tin, were used indiscriminately at first; this early period is sometimes called the priests, artists, civil officials and military men give evidence of crucial developments in art, language and religious ideas on their tombs, on statues, and on temple walls. Frood (Egyptology, U. of Oxford) provides a strong contextual background for these people, who served the kings of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties, in the form of a general introduction and information on each biography, including relationships between the authors, their deities and their king and the ways in which their stories are inscribed in·scribe tr.v. in·scribed, in·scrib·ing, in·scribes 1. a. To write, print, carve, or engrave (words or letters) on or in a surface. b. To mark or engrave (a surface) with words or letters. . The result is a thorough introduction to the ways in which powerful people thought of themselves, their king and their gods in ancient Egyptian culture. The Society of Biblical Literature The Society of Biblical Literature is a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies with the stated mission to "Foster Biblical Scholarship". Membership is open to the public, including 7200 individuals from over 80 countries. publishes the paperbound pa·per·bound adj. Bound in paper; paperback. edition; Brill publishes the hardbound hard·bound adj. & n. Hardcover. Adj. 1. hardbound - having a hard back or cover; "hardback books" hardback, hardbacked, hardcover backed - having a back or backing, usually of a specified type . ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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