The Elephantine Papyri in English

The Elephantine Papyri in English
Author: Bezalel Porten
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 664
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004101975

175 documents, spanning more than 3,000 years, from the ancient mounds on the island of Elephantine are translated into English here for the first time. A massive collection of papyri and ostraca, written in many scripts and tongues - including hieratic, demotic, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Coptic and Arabic. Each entry, arranged thematically, includes information on date, size, parties, objects, content and significance, as well as general comments and cross-references. An important source, previously scattered among various museums and institutions, brought together here for the first time.

Visualizing Coregency

Visualizing Coregency
Author: Lisa Saladino Haney
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 778
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004422153

In Visualizing Coregency, Lisa Saladino Haney presents both a comprehensive accounting of the evidence for coregency during Egypt’s 12th Dynasty and a detailed analysis of the full corpus of royal statuary attributed to Senwosret III and Amenemhet III.

A Wandering Aramean

A Wandering Aramean
Author: Joseph A. Fitzmyer
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1979-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802848468

Here in One Convenient Volume are Two Works by Joseph A. Fitzmyer that have been influential in shaping the study of the New Testament during the past two decades -- Essays on the Semitic Background of the New Testament and A Wandering Aramean: Collected Aramaic Essays.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108050778

J. B. Bury's authoritative seven-volume edition (1896-1900) of Edward Gibbon's magisterial account of the relationship between Roman imperialism and Christianity.

Between Two Worlds

Between Two Worlds
Author: László Török
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 629
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004171975

The Egyptological literature usually belittles or ignores the political and intellectual initiative and success of the Nubian Twenty-Fifth Dynasty in the reunification of Egypt, while students of Nubian history frequently ignore or misunderstand the impact of Egyptian ideas on the cultural developments in pre- and post-Twenty-Fifth-Dynasty Nubia. This book re-assesses the textual and archaeological evidence concerning the interaction between Egypt and the polities emerging in Upper Nubia between the Late Neolithic period and 500 AD. The investigation is carried out, however, from the special viewpoint of the political, social, economic, religious and cultural history of the frontier region between Egypt and Nubia and not from the traditional viewpoint of the direct interaction between Egypt and the successive Nubian kingdoms of Kerma, Napata and Meroe. The result is a new picture of the bipolar acculturation processes occurring in the frontier region of Lower Nubia in particular and in the Upper Nubian centres, in general. The much-debated issue of social and cultural "Egyptianization" is also re-assessed.

Ancient Egyptian Administration

Ancient Egyptian Administration
Author: Juan Carlos Moreno García
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1111
Release: 2013-06-03
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9004250085

Ancient Egyptian Administration provides the first comprehensive overview of the structure, organization and evolution of the pharaonic administration from its origins to the end of the Late Period. The book not only focuses on bureaucracy, departments, and official practices but also on more informal issues like patronage, the limits in the actual exercise of authority, and the competing interests between institutions and factions within the ruling elite. Furthermore, general chapters devoted to the best-documented periods in Egyptian history are supplemented by more detailed ones dealing with specific archives, regions, and administrative problems. The volume thus produced by an international team of leading scholars will be an indispensable, up-to-date, tool of research covering a much-neglected aspect of pharaonic civilization.

Moses and the Exodus Chronological, Historical and Archaeological Evidence

Moses and the Exodus Chronological, Historical and Archaeological Evidence
Author: Gerard Gertoux
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 1329445252

The existence Moses as well as the Exodus is a crucial question because, according to the Bible, the character related to that famous event forms the basis of the Passover which meant the Promised Land for Jews and later the Paradise for Christians. However, according to most Egyptologists, there is absolutely no evidence of Moses and the Exodus in Egyptian documents, which leads them to conclude that the whole biblical story is a myth written for gullible people. However, according to Egyptian accounts the last king of the 15th dynasty named Apopi, “very pretty”, which was Moses' birth name (Ex 2:2), reigned 40 years in Egypt (1613-1573) and met Seqenenre Taa, 40 years later, the last pharaoh of the 17th dynasty who died in May 1533 BCE in dramatic and unclear circumstances (Ps 136:15). The state of his mummy proves that his body received severe injuries and remained abandoned for several days before being mummified. The eldest son of Seqenenre Taa, Ahmose Sapaïr, who was crown prince died in a dramatic and unexplained way shortly before his father (Ex 12:29). Prince Kamose, Seqenenre Taa's brother, assured interim of authority for 3 years and threatened attack the former pharaoh Apopi, new prince of Retenu (Palestine) who took the name Moses, according to Manetho, an Egyptian priest and historian. In the stele of the Tempest, Kamose also blames Apopi for all the disasters that come to fall upon Egypt, which caused many deaths. Ironically, those who believe Egyptologists are actually the real gullible ones