The Craft of a Good Scribe

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In The Craft of a Good Scribe, Steve Vinson offers a comprehensive study of the Demotic Egyptian First Tale of Setne Khaemwas (Third Century BCE), the first to appear since 1900.

Author(s): Vinson Steve
Series: Harvard Egyptological Studies
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017

Language: English
Pages: 370
City: Leiden

‎Contents
‎List of Maps and Illustrations
‎Abbreviations
‎Part 1. History
‎Chapter 1. A Work of Unexpected Quality
‎Chapter 2. The Mask of Khaemwas
‎Chapter 3. An Unfathomable Snare of the Evil One
‎Chapter 4. An Excellently Weird and Romantic Story
‎Chapter 5. From Daffodils to Derrida
‎Part 2. Narrative and Meaning
‎Chapter 6. The First Tale of Setne Khaemwas
‎Chapter 7. Repetition, Mirroring and mise en abyme
‎Chapter 8. Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo
‎Chapter 9. At What is It That He Gazed?
‎Chapter 10. Ihweret, Tabubue and the “Magic Book of Thoth”
‎Bibliography
‎Indexes
‎I. General Index
‎II. Narratological and Literary Terms
‎III. Ancient Sources
‎IV. Words Discussed
‎Plates