A Comparative Study of the Literatures of Egypt, Palestine, and Mesopotamia Contributor(s): Peet, T. Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 1597527394 ISBN-13: 9781597527392 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers OUR PRICE: $20.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2007 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Literary Criticism | African |
Series: Ancient Near East: Classic Studies |
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.97" W x 8.95" (0.41 lbs) 154 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Theometrics - Academic |
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Publisher Description: During the last hundred years scholarship has revealed the existence of two other eastern literatures which are not only as old as that of the Hebrews but very much older, namely those of Egypt and Babylonia. . . . Although much of Babylonian literature is know to us mainly from the Assyrian versions found in Assurbanipal's library, recent discoveries have shown that many of its best epic and lyric productions go back at least two thousand years further, and have their roots in the Sumerian civilization. In Egypt, too, religious literature is found in a highly developed state as early as the Pyramid Texts, which, in the form in which we have them, are as old as 2500 B.C., and possibly go back in part to much earlier originals. These discoveries make it no longer possible to regard the literature of the Hebrews as an isolated phenomenon in the ancient East, and they furnish a host of new criteria which must be applied to any attempt to explain and to appraise the Old Testament. --from the Preface |
Contributor Bio(s): Peet, T. Eric: - T. Eric Peet (1882-1934) was Brunner Professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. Among his other publications are 'Egypt and the Old Testament, ' 'Mathematics in Ancient Egypt, ' 'The City of Akhenaten, ' and 'The Cemeteries of Abydos.' |