The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (Writings from the Ancient World) 2nd Edition by Jame P. Allen (PDF)

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Completely revised and updated 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). Allen’s revisions take into account recent advances in the understanding of Egyptian grammar.Features:Sequential translations based on all available sources, including texts newly discovered in the last decadeTexts numbered according to the most widely used numbering system with new numbers from the latest 2013 concordanceTranslations reflect the primarily atemporal verbal system of Old Egyptian, which conveys the timeless quality that the text’s authors understood the texts to haveJames P. Allen is Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University and the President of the International Association of Egyptologists.

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⭐The world’s oldest collection of religious texts. A must for anyone who is interested in understanding the rituarls of the pyramids of ancient Egypt.

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⭐Professor James P. Allen has given us a readable edition of the Pyramid Texts. He is one of the handful of living scholarly Egyptologists who has carefully reflected on this ancient text. It is a pity that one cannot peer inside the text. It would have increased sales of it.What is needed now is a comprehensive philological commentary and historical monograph that captures the actual 24 century B.C.E. mentality of the Egyptian pharaonic culture. It should not beforgotten that these Old Kingdom texts are the oldest collection of a considerable quantity that actually captures the Stone Age magico-religious mentality. One needs to transport oneself back in time before mental logic, with its distinctions, has erupted into human consciousness. The notion of Heka [Eg. ‘magic’] is simultaneously a concept, a God, and a title [Eg. Heka-semsu ‘Eldest Magician’].Heka [Eg. magician], in the form of the lector-priest (usually a member of the Royal inner family), was the manifestation of the primordial God Atum. Spell 261 in the Coffin Texts asserts, “I am he whom the ‘Unique Lord’ made before two things had yet come into being [i.e., the notion of duality: Lush Nile valley/red desert, Horus/Seth, Upper Land (south)/Lower Land (north), gods-pharaoh/common people, etc.] in this land by sending forth his unique eye [very important complex theological notion] when he was alone, by the going forth from his mouth…when he put HU [St. John’s ‘Logos’ concept] upon his mouth. I am indeed the son of Him who gave birth to the universe [“The All”], who was born before his mother yet existed. I am the protection of that which the ‘Unique Lord’ has ordained. I am he who caused the Ennead [the Eight gods produced by Atum’s initiating act of masturbation] to live…I have seated myself, O bulls of heaven [explicit symbol of violent sexual potency], in this my great dignity as Lord of ‘kas’ [No proper translation exists in English], heir of Re-Atum.”Furthermore, Coffin Texts Spell 648 asserts, “It was Heka…who created the mountains and knit the firmanent together.” The first god born of the hidden Atum [behind the scenes deified reality of absolute, rectified reality] was Heka, hence his epithet, ‘Eldest Magician.’I have made these observations, since it is time for Egyptologists to syntensize all their knowledge of the last thirty years, and produce a scholarly edition of these Pyramid texts that effectively capture the actual mentality of the Stone Age, without intruding scholarly polemics into their narrative. Professor James P. Allen has made a brilliant start in this formidable undertaking by the publication of this treatise. For the complete texts the readership of Amazon can review […]. Professors J. Assmann, Colleen Manassa & James P. Allen have started the project with their more recent publications.John E.D.P. Malin,Chairman of the Board & CEOInformatica Corporation[…]See my Facebook page ‘John Edward Malin’ for my photo

⭐Nel mio caso la passione per l’Antico Egitto e la continua attività di ricerca finalizzata alla produzione di conferenze monografiche ha tovato un valido aiuto e una miniera di dati dalla traduzione di questi testi del periodo a cui sono interessato. Buona anche la veste tipografica, non sarebbe stato male avere anche qualche schizzo o qualche foto di steli e tavole d’offerta… sarebbe stato il massimo!

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⭐Das Buch ist ausgezeichnet, aber ich war sehr enttaeuscht dass ich es nur auf mein IPhone lesen konnte und nicht auf mein laptop!

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