scholarly journals Spittle in Ancient Egyptian Religious Texts

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-259
Author(s):  
رانيا عبد العزيز
Keyword(s):  
Religious Texts ◽  
Ancient Egyptian

Ancient Egyptian Literature

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena M. Lepper
Keyword(s):  
Prose Poetry ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Vocabulary Richness ◽  
Egyptian Literature ◽  
Middle Egyptian

This chapter discusses the genre and style of Ancient Egyptian literature. Through the application of lexicostatistics, it analyses a total of fifty texts. Having examined the vocabulary size of Middle Egyptian narratives, Late Egyptian narratives, speeches, and dialogues, the texts under investigation are grouped into genres such as ‘religious texts’, ‘artful prose’, ‘poetry’, ‘teachings’, and so on. On the basis of texts existing in several copies, it becomes apparent that a text maintains a constant vocabulary richness independent of its length. Each copy therefore facilitates the determination of the genre of a text. Furthermore, the language of a text (Middle or Late Egyptian) proves not to be decisive for the vocabulary richness of a text, but rather it is genre that is indicative. The chapter also investigates the question of the practical function of texts, which can best be detected during experimental reading.

scholarly journals Skeletal Dysplasia: an Analysis of Dwarfism in Ancient Egyptian Culture

Pathways ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kody Engele
Keyword(s):  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
High Status ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Artistic Representation ◽  
Egyptian Culture ◽  
Religious Importance

The purpose of this paper is to analyze dwarfism and its standing in ancient Egyptian society and culture. Dwarfism existed in ancient Egyptian society, but unlike other ancient societies, those with dwarfism were not blatantly discriminated against (Sullivan 2001). Individuals with dwarfism could hold many positions within society ranging from herdsmen and fishermen, to personal attendants in royal court (Kozma 2008). There is evidence of individuals with dwarfism dating back to the Badarian Period, with statues, sarcophagi, skeletons, and paintings all having been discovered (Kozma 2008). There are several prominent figures who have been studied in detail; Per-ni-ankh-w was an individual with high status in Egyptian society, and there is ample docu­mentation of him in texts, visual imagery, and skeletal evidence (Kozma 2008). Djeho was another individual who has been well documented and aided with burials (Kozma 2008). Individuals with dwarfism also had religious importance, including the gods Bes and Ptah (Kozma 2008). Individ­uals with dwarfism were also considered to hold magical significance, and this was seen in spells and religious texts (Kozma 2008). Additionally, there is an abundance of artistic representation of individuals with dwarfism, in the form of statues, sarcophagi, and visual images (Kozma 2008). The Walters Art Museum is also a significant holder of Egyptian art, with many depictions of dwarfism (Kozma 2010). These individuals were significant in ancient Egyptian society and were well documented in several forms.

scholarly journals Picturing the Pharaoh Through Language – Remarks on the Linguistic Image of the Egyptian King in the Old Kingdom Religious Texts

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 135-147
Author(s):  
Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Old Kingdom ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
Pyramid Texts ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Context ◽  
Future Research Project

The author of the paper aims at scrutinising the linguistic image of the Egyptian pharaoh in the so-called Pyramid Texts. Was the Egyptian ruler perceived as a human representative of the god on Earth or rather was he a or the god himself? Special emphasis will be put on names and epithets of the King when described or referred to in religious texts of the Old Kingdom. This study is planned as a part of a future research project on picturing the pharaoh through language in religious and royal texts from the beginning of the Old Kingdom till the end of the New Kingdom, and realised in cooperation with Dr. Andrzej Ćwiek and Jadwiga Iwaszczuk.Furthermore, the paper is also a presentation of use of ethnolinguistic methods in Egyptology. Using scholarly methods of the ‘linguistic worldview’ research project in which the present author participates, it is intended to study selected ancient Egyptian concepts. Although language analysis as well as widely understood and studied ‘life context’ of ancient religious notions let us only a textual and linguistic reconstruction of the world presented, concurrently, helps us understand better the Egyptian religious way of description and thinking.

scholarly journals As serpentes vindas do Médio Oriente nos Textos das Pirâmides. Reflexão sobre as relações egípcias-orientais nos textos religiosos mais antigos

2020 ◽  
pp. 285-295
Author(s):  
Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Complete Work ◽  
Pyramid Texts ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linguistic Means

The Pyramid Texts created in Ancient Egypt and contextualised by the belief in life beyond death, were intended to accompany the deceased in their journey to the Hereafter, to protect and ensure the realisation of their needs there. The oldest religious texts demonstrate positive aspects, delight and lust for life and, due to the fact that they were composed in order to assist the pharaoh on his way to the sky and the true existence of the king in the Beyond, could never be questioned or endangered. However, despite everything evoked here, there are attestations of inimical forces, or perils, which are to be fought off. Emphasis will be placed on the question of how the “serpent spells” and use of language in them manifest the relationship of the pharaoh and the Egyptians with the inhabitants of the Near East. The ideas of the presumed origin of the formulae and the link with the creator Atum in the texts under discussion is also presented. One can trace the quiddity of the world as a complete work of the ancient Egyptian creator. Therefore, the author of the paper aims to scrutinise, with reference to contextual arguments, the language of the diagnostic “serpent spells” of the Pyramid Texts, namely the grammar, choice of vocabulary, phraseology, possible onomatopoeic effects, to elucidate linguistic means of expression used in the Pyramid Texts. The methodology of the linguistic worldview is used.

The Qur'an, Faith and the Impact of the Feminist Interpretative Movement on the Arabic Text and its Legacy

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-183
Author(s):  
Hassan al-Shafīe
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Text ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Intellectual Movement ◽  
Qur'anic Interpretation

The present study discusses the cultural and intellectual movement, now on the point of prevalence in the contemporary Islamic world, which adopts the Western ‘hermeneutical method’ and applies it to the Qur'an in particular, and Islamic religious texts in general. The author shows this movement's complete disregard for the established principles of tafsīr, the traditional Arab-Islamic rules of Qur'anic interpretation and the related Prophetic aḥādīth as preserved in the authenticated Sunna. The author argues that the ‘hermeneutical method’ starts from the preconceived notion that the Islamic heritage is male-centred and biased against women, both theoretically and practically, and, on this basis, proposes that the time has come for an intellectual break with this premise and the re-interpretation of the Qur'an and faith in the light of Western Christian hermeneutics. This paper proposes that this method fails to take historical events and the civilisational Islamic experience into account.

Pararllelism In Religious Texts

2019 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Razzaq Nayef Mukheef
Keyword(s):  
Religious Texts

The Ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways

1972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard H. Lesko
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Egyptian
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