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Tales from Ancient Egypt
Loren R. Fisher
其他書名
The Birth of Stories
出版Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2010-02-01
主題Religion / Biblical Studies / GeneralReligion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / GeneralReligion / Biblical Reference / General
ISBN17252449269781725244924
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=G0_7DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Egyptian tales witness to some of the great moments in the history of Egyptian literature and represent the earliest beginnings in world literature. Many literary critics do not seem to know the importance of Egyptian prose tales told for entertainment (including C. S. Lewis, who does not know that the "marvelous that knows itself as myth" was alive and well by 1800 BCE). Unlike some other ancient states, both Israel and Egypt wrote epic tales in prose. And these great prose stories are important for the study of the Hebrew Bible. Some of the most exciting narrative prose parallels to the Hebrew Bible are found in the stories from Egypt. The details may vary, but in the setting, the purpose, the vocabulary, and the genre of the stories, one can find many similarities. Contents 1 The Story of Sinuhe: A Wanderer on the Earth 2 The Enchanted Prince 3 The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor 4 The Journey of Wen-Amon 5 A Dialogue between a Man and His Ba