The Tale of Sinuhe: and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C. [Hardcover]

R. B. Parkinson (Translator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198149638 | ISBN-13: 978-0198149637 | Publication Date: October 2, 1997

These new translations bring to life for the modern reader the golden age of Egyptian fictional literature, the Middle Kingdom (c. 1938-1640 BC), and include the masterpiece of Egyptian poetry, The Tale of Sinuhe. An introduction and notes explain historical details, and offer for the first time a literary reading, to enable these poems to entertain and instruct, as they did their original audiences three-and-a-half thousand years ago.

Editorial Reviews

Review

`'...in sensitivity to language, range of scholarship, and attention to nuances, Richard Parkinson is simply the best...This is a book which deserves the widest readership.'' TLS

`'...These new translations draw on refcent advances in Egyptology...This is a truly outstanding piece of scholarship which propels the presentation of Ancient Egyptian literature to a new level...The work is of a quality rarely found in ancient Near Eastern studies of this kind.'' Kuwait

`In sensitivity to language, range of scholarship, and attention to nuances, Richard Parkinson is simply the best ... This is a book which deserves the widest readership.' TLS

`These new translations draw on refcent advances in Egyptology ... This is a truly outstanding piece of scholarship which propels the presentation of Ancient Egyptian literature to a new level ... The work is of a quality rarely found in ancient Near Eastern studies of this kind.' Kuwait

`Classicists interested in the development of ancient lyric and epic will find plenty to enjoy in Parkinson's elegant and subtle collection of translations of the principal Egyptian literary texts dating to the period known as the Middle Kingdom ... His beautiful translations and thorough, informative yet unobtrusive commentaries work together to convey strongly the poetic qualities of the Egyptian originals ... Parkinson has produced a book of lasting value here, whose high quality and easy yet authoritative presentation will make these too-long-obscure poems accessible to a wider audience in comparative literary studies, and (I hope) beyond.' Dominic Montserrat, The Classical Review

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (October 2, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198149638
• ISBN-13: 978-0198149637
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,950,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)