The Early History of Egypt: From the Old Testament, Herodotus, Manetho, and the Hieroglyphical Inscriptions (Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology) - Softcover

Sharpe, Samuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108083013 ISBN 13: 9781108083010

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Sharpe's objective in this 1836 book is 'to collect out of the writings of the ancients every particular relating to the History of Egypt', marshalling ancient authorities including the Old Testament, Herodotus, and the Ptolemaic priest Manetho. He then uses this evidence to discuss Egyptian life, language, beliefs and customs.

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This 1836 work by Samuel Sharpe (1799–1881) is the first of two volumes on the history of ancient Egypt; the second, dealing with the Ptolemaic period, is also reissued in this series. From a banking family, Sharpe was fascinated by Thomas Young's and Champollion's work in deciphering the hieroglyphs. He taught himself Coptic, and compiled his own hieroglyphic vocabulary lists. His facility for decipherment was assisted by a natural gift for solving cryptograms, but his inferences sometimes led him into error. His objective in this book is 'to collect out of the writings of the ancients every particular relating to the History of Egypt', marshalling ancient authorities including the Old Testament, Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus and the Ptolemaic priest Manetho, whose division of the rulers into dynasties is still relied on. The second part of the book uses this evidence to discuss Egyptian life, language, beliefs and customs.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1108083013
• ISBN 13: 9781108083010
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192