The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts

by James P Allen

Overview

James P. Allen provides a translation of the oldest corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts from the six royal pyramids of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties (ca. 2350-2150 BCE). Based on all available sources, including texts discovered in the last decade, this revised edition incorporates the traditional numbering system of the texts with the new numbers from the latest 2013 concordance. Allen's revisions take into account recent advances in the understanding of Egyptian grammar and reflect the primarily atemporal verbal system of Old Egyptian that expresses the timeless quality the ancient authors understood the texts to have.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781628371147
Publisher:	SBL Press
Publication date:	03/01/2015
Series:	Writings from the Ancient World , #23
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	394
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

James P. Allen, Ph.D. (1981) in Egyptology, University of Chicago, is Curator of Egyptian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the author of The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt (Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press), The Heqanakht Papyri (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs (Cambridge University Press), and other books on ancient Egypt.