Strudwick, N.C. 2005. Texts from the Pyramid Age. – Leiden, Brill (SBL Writings from the Ancient World 16)

Abstract

The year 2005 saw the publication of two new volumes devoted to translations of ancient Egyptian texts in the ‘Writings from the Ancient World’ series. These two books, the one under review here and J.P. Allen’s translation of Pyramid Texts (Allen, 2005) form a complementary pair, each containing translations of an important part of the written sources from the Old Kingdom.

Before the translations themselves, ‘Texts from the Pyramid Age’ contains a comprehensive (63 pp) opening chapter providing an introduction not only to the literature of the period, but also to more general questions such as chronology, language, and general issues of translation. Read more...