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A World Upturned: Commentary on and Analysis of the Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs) - Hardcover
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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 heterogeneous 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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About the Author
Roland Enmarch is a Lecturer in Egyptology at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.
Review
With full new translation at the close, this volume brings the work firmly within reach of other ancient historical disciplines as well as studies in comparative literature ... Enmarch offers meticulous and methodical literary commentary * Stephen Quirke, Orientalia *
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- PublisherBritish Academy
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0197264336
- ISBN 13 9780197264331
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages300
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