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A World Upturned - Commentary on and Analysis of The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All (Hardcover)
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A World Upturned - Commentary on and Analysis of The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All (Hardcover)
Series: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
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The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All is one of the major
works from the golden age of Egyptian literature, the Middle
Kingdom (c. 1980-1630 BC). The poem provides one of the most
searching explorations of human motivation and divine justice to
survive from Ancient Egypt, and its stark pessimism questions many
of the core ideologies that underpinned the Egyptian state and
monarchy. It begins with a series of laments portraying an Egypt
overwhelmed by chaos and destruction, and develops into an
examination of why these disasters should happen, and who bears
responsibility for them: the gods, the king, or humanity.
This volume provides the first full literary analysis of this poem
for a century. It provides a detailed study of questions such as:
its date of composition; its historicity; the identity of its
protagonists and setting; its reception history within Egyptian
culture; and whether it really is a unified literary composition,
or a redacted collection of texts of heterogeneous origin.
Providing a new reading of the poem, within the cultural milieu
that produced it, this volume will be essential reading for
scholars and students of Ancient Egyptian literature, the Old
Testament and comparative religion.
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