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Ancient Egyptian Literature: Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms (Ancient Egyptian Literature, a Book of Readings) Miriam Lichtheim
Publisher: University of California Press

William Albright, the famous archaeologist, commented about Genesis 10: "The tenth chapter of Genesis . We find a clear picture of these times in The Story of Sinuhe — the "crown jewel" of Middle Kingdom literature. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1975. Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms. I can more or less tell my Middle Kingdom from my Old, I know a few of the great names and I good give a very rough and slightly inaccurate explanation of what "Egyptians" (which Egyptians you rightly ask) thought about what happened to the body after death. In his introduction to the commentary on the Book of Joshua in (Boling 1982: 5), G. Since 1902, the Times Literary Supplement has scrutinized, dissected, applauded and occasionally disparaged, the work of the twentieth century's leading writers and thinkers. By the beginning of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (a few years after 2000 B.C.E.), the pressure of immigrants on the eastern Delta was so strong that the Egyptian authorities built a series of forts at strategic points to “repel the Asiatics,” as the story of Sinuhe tells us. Historians generally divide the early dynastic era of ancient Egyptian history into three main periods—the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms, spanning more than a millennium. Sinuhe was an attendant of the wife of Sesostris I, and he tells of his adventures in Egypt and Palestine . €�These are the kings and high-priest mummies that you think of with lavish tombs and ancient curses,” says Macko. From “A Hymn to Osiris and a Hymn to Min.” [Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings. During Egypt's Middle Kingdom, typically only the wealthy were mummified. Human existence was understood by the Egyptians as only a small segment of an eternal journey presided over and orchestrated by supernatural forces in the forms of the many deities which comprised the Egyptian pantheon. Stands absolutely alone in ancient literature, without a remote parallel, even among the Greeks, where we find the closest approach to a distribution of peoples in a genealogical framework . Worshipped during the Old Kingdom, 2575-2134 BCE] at Hermopolis and represented eternity – the goal and destiny of all human life in Egyptian religious beliefs, a stage of existence in which mortals could attain everlasting bliss (86).