London: Routledge, 2019. — (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World series). — 242 p., illus. Gilgamesh focuses on the eponymous hero of the world’s oldest epic and his legendary adventures. However, it also goes further and examines the significance of the story’s Ancient Near Eastern context, and what it tells us about notions of kingship, animality, and the natures of mortality...
New York University Press, 2016. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 1479828440, 13 978-1479828449. How the Wise Men Got to Chelm is the first in-depth study of Chelm literature and its relationship to its literary precursors. When God created the world, so it is said, he sent out an angel with a bag of foolish souls with instructions to distribute them equally all over the world-one fool per...
Brill, 1996. — xvi + 726 p. This volume deals with the development and the characteristics of the literature of Ancient Egypt over a period of more than two millennia, from the monumental origins of autobiography at the end of the Old Kingdom (ca. 2150 BCE) down to the latest literary compositions in Demotic during the Graeco-Roman period (300 BCE-200 CE). This book, the result...
Brill Academic Pub, 2010. — 271 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 44). This book is a new study of the ancient Egyptian poem known in English as The Man Who Was Tired of Life or The Dialogue of a Man and His Ba (or Soul). The composition is universally regarded as one of the masterpieces of ancient Egyptian literature. It is also one of the most difficult and...
New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2004. — 437 p. — ISBN-0–19–926311–6. Sumerian literature is the oldest readable poetry in the world. It was written down on clay tablets in the cuneiform script by scribes in southern Iraq some 4,000 years ago and has been read again only within the last sixty years. This introduction explores some of the questions that Sumerian...
Foster John L. Literature of Ancient Egypt: An Anthology, 2001, English. language This book has been supported by an endowment dedicated to classics and the ancient world, funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the James R. Dougherty, Jr., Foundation, and the Rachael and Ben Vaughan Foundation, and by gifts from...
Foster John L. Hymns, Prayers and Songs: An Anthology of Lyric Poetry of Ancient Egypt, 1995, English. language The Transfiguration of the King: Hymns and Prayers from The Pyramid Texts. Hymns and Prayers to Re. Hymns and Prayers to Osiris. Hymns and Prayers to Amun-Re. Hymns and Prayers from The Book of the Dead. Amarna: The Heretical Interlude of Aton. Hymns and Prayers to...
Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012. — 160 p. — ISBN: 978-0-664-23242-9. The texts from ancient Ugarit are among the most important modern discoveries for understanding the Bible. For more than thirty years, Stories from Ancient Canaan has been recognized as a highly authoritative and readable presentation of the principal Canaanite myths and epics discovered at...