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Writing Knowledge: Grammar, Words, and Signs as Scholarship in Ancient Egypt (700 Bce to 300 Ce)

Writing Knowledge: Grammar, Words, and Signs as Scholarship in Ancient Egypt (700 Bce to 300 Ce)

Davis, Katherine

Hardcover

Series: Harvard Egyptological Studies, Book 30

Literary CriticismAncient History GeneralGeneral European History

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 17, 2027

ISBN10: 9004765409
ISBN13: 9789004765405
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 17 2027
Language: English
Writing Knowledge explores how ancient students and scholars learned to write and become expert in the Egyptian language during the last millennium of native script use (c. 700 BCE - 300 CE). This study analyzes late technical texts from two different writing contexts: grammatical paradigms and alphabetic texts produced within scribal schools and word and sign handbooks produced within elite priestly circles. These case studies, each paired with a close cultural analysis of the contexts of their production, provide new insights into writing as a field of knowledge, one whose parameters are defined by ancient Egyptian concepts, rather than one circumscribed by either the Greek grammatical tradition or by modern disciplines like linguistics.

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