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The Craft of a Good Scribe
Steve Vinson
其他書名
History, Narrative and Meaning in the First Tale of Setne Khaemwas
出版
Brill
, 2018
主題
History / Ancient / Egypt
Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical
Social Science / Archaeology
ISBN
9004353097
9789004353091
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tYsZtAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
In
The Craft of a Good Scribe
, Steve Vinson offers a comprehensive study of the Demotic Egyptian
First Tale of Setne Khaemwas
(Third Century BCE), the first to appear since 1900. "First Setne" is the most important extant Demotic literary text, and among the most important fictional compositions from any period of ancient Egypt. The tale, which is by turns lurid, tragic and ultimately comic, deals with Setne's theft of a magic book written by the god Thoth himself, and subsequently Setne's punishment through a hallucinatory encounter with the ghostly
femme fatale
Tabubue.
Vinson provides a new textual edition and commentary, and explores the tale's cultural background, its modern reception, and approaches to its interpretation as a work of literature.