T. Eric Peet

A Comparative Study of the Literatures of Egypt, Palestine, and Mesopotamia

Buch

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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-59752-739-2
EAN: 9781597527392
Produktnummer: 3229200
Verlag: Wipf and Stock
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 156 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.8 cm 237 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 237

Über den Autor

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.'