Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth written by Joshua Aaron Roberson and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collections of scenes and texts designated variously as the "Book of the Earth," "Creation of the Solar Disc," and "Book of Aker" were inscribed on the walls of royal sarcophagus chambers throughout Egypt's Ramessid period (Dynasties 19-20). This material illustrated discrete episodes from the nocturnal voyage of the sun god, which functioned as a model for the resurrection of the deceased king. These earliest "Books of the Earth" employed mostly ad hoc arrangements of scenes, united by shared elements of iconography, an overarching, bipartite symmetry of composition, and their frequent pairing with representations of the double sky overhead. From the Twenty-First Dynasty and later, selections of programmatic tableaux were adapted for use in private mortuary contexts, often in conjunction with innovative or previously unattested annotations. The present study collects and analyzes all currently known Book of the Earth material, including discussions of iconography, grammar, orthography, and architectural setting.
Download or read book Egypt for the Egyptians written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Egypt s Occupation written by Aaron G. Jakes and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt's emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt's Occupation tells for the first time the story of that financial expansion and the devastating crises that followed. Aaron Jakes offers a sweeping reinterpretation of both the historical geography of capitalism in Egypt and the role of political-economic thought in the struggles that raged over the occupation. He traces the complex ramifications and the contested legacy of colonial economism, the animating theory of British imperial rule that held Egyptians to be capable of only a recognition of their own bare economic interests. Even as British officials claimed that "economic development" and the multiplication of new financial institutions would be crucial to the political legitimacy of the occupation, Egypt's early nationalists elaborated their own critical accounts of boom and bust. As Jakes shows, these Egyptian thinkers offered a set of sophisticated and troubling meditations on the deeper contradictions of capitalism and the very meaning of freedom in a capitalist world.
Download or read book The Egyptian written by Mika Waltari and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2021-11-05T00:00:00Z with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in the 1940s and widely condemned as obscene, The Egyptian outsold every other American novel published that same year, and remains a classic; readers worldwide have testified to its life-changing power. It is a full-bodied re-creation of a largely forgotten era in the world’s history: an Egypt when pharaohs contended with the near-collapse of history’s greatest empire. This epic tale encompasses the whole of the then-known world, from Babylon to Crete, from Thebes to Jerusalem, while centering around one unforgettable figure: Sinuhe, a man of mysterious origins who rises from the depths of degradation to get close to the Pharoah...
Download or read book The Bible and the Believer written by Marc Zvi Brettler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three leading biblical scholars from the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faiths show how a critical approach to the Bible can complement religious readings"--Page [2] of jacket.
Download or read book Egyptian Society Under Ottoman Rule 1517 1798 written by Michael Winter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First study to cover the whole of this period and focus on both social change and cultural/religious life The period is crucial to understanding modern Egyptian consciousness Author uses primary sources, not available anywhere else
Download or read book The Quest for the Historical Israel written by Israel Finkelstein and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging series of essays, originally given at the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism. The aim of the colloquium was to make available the results of recent archaeological work to a wider interested public, and specifically to bring science to bear on the early history of the Jewish people.
Download or read book The Ancient Egyptians and the Natural World written by Salima Ikram and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse bioarchaeological studies (using both traditional as well as innovative and advanced technologies), covering topics as varied as food, the mummification industry, and health and diseases, giving new insight into how the ancient Egyptians interacted with the flora and fauna that surrounded them.
Download or read book How Would You Survive as an Ancient Egyptian written by Jacqueline Morley and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes ancient Egyptian daily life, families, houses, food, clothing, farming, work, government, entertainment, health, and beliefs
Download or read book Egypt Before the Pharaohs written by Michael A. Hoffman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1980 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Papyrus of the Late Middle Kingdom in the Brooklyn Museum Papyrus Brooklyn 35 1446 written by William Christopher Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Egyptians written by Jack Shenker and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Best Book of 2017 From award-winning journalist Jack Shenker, an "intimate and comprehensive portrait" (Pankaj Mishra) of the battle for contemporary Egypt that marks a stunning debut from a rising star In The Egyptians, journalist Jack Shenker uncovers the roots of the uprising that succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak, one of the Middle East's most entrenched dictators, and explores a country now divided between two irreconcilable political orders. Challenging conventional analyses that depict contemporary Egypt as a battle between Islamists and secular forces, The Egyptians illuminates other, equally important fault lines: far-flung communities waging war against transnational corporations, men and women fighting to subvert long-established gender norms, and workers dramatically seizing control of their own factories. Putting the Egyptian revolution in its proper context as an ongoing popular struggle against state authority and economic exclusion, The Egyptians explains why the events of the past five years have proved so threatening to elites both inside Egypt and abroad. As Egypt's rulers seek to eliminate all forms of dissent, seeded within the rebellious politics of Egypt's young generation are big ideas about democracy, sovereignty, social justice, and resistance that could yet change the world.
Download or read book The Bible s Many Voices written by Michael Carasik and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most common English translations of the Bible often sound like a single, somewhat archaic voice. In fact, the Bible is made up of many separate books composed by multiple writers in a wide range of styles and perspectives. It is, as Michael Carasik demonstrates, not a remote text reserved for churches and synagogues but rather a human document full of history, poetry, politics, theology, and spirituality. Using historic, linguistic, anthropological, and theological sources, Carasik helps us distinguish between the Jewish Bible’s voices—the mythic, the historical, the prophetic, the theological, and the legal. By articulating the differences among these voices, he shows us not just their messages and meanings but also what mattered to the authors. In these contrasts we encounter the Bible anew as a living work whose many voices tell us about the world out of which the Bible grew—and the world that it created. Listen to the author's podcast.
Download or read book Life of the Ancient Egyptians written by Evžen Strouhal and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few studies of ancient Egypt cover so broad a scope as this exceptional insight into everyday life in ancient Egypt. The text is complemented by many illustrations of artefacts, works of art, and scenes of life in ancient Egypt as recorded in tomb reliefs and paintings on papyri. Werner Forman’s superb photographs were taken specially for this volume in Egypt and in the great public and private collections.
Download or read book Ordinary Egyptians written by Ziad Fahmy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity.
Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Government written by Leigh Rockwood and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Egypt was not a great empire at its outset, yet over time it became united under rulers called pharaohs. Each pharaoh was believed to be an incarnation of the god Horus. Readers will learn how this tie between Ancient Egypts government and its religion helped forge an empire. They will also learn about the basics of Ancient Egyptian laws and draw parallels between the ancient world and today.
Download or read book The Egyptian Book of the Dead written by Eva Von Dassow and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissue of the legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Ani, the most beautiful of the ornately illustrated Egyptian funerary scrolls ever discovered, restored in its original sequences of text and artwork.
