The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant

By R.B. Parkinson

Book Overview

This is one of the masterpieces from the golden age of Egyptianliterature in the Middle Kingdom. Although the Tale has been muchstudied and quoted, there has never been a full parallel edition of themanuscripts. This volume fills that gap and provides a standard text toserve as a basis for future research. For the edition of the Egyptiantext, Richard Parkinson has collated the transcriptions with theoriginal papyri in Berlin and London, and proposes a number of new andimproved readings. The textual notes supply facsimiles of problematicpassages, offer restorations for damaged sections, and record thevariant readings of previous scholars. The introduction describes thefour manuscripts and discusses their date and provenance. RichardParkinson constructs the first stemma for the textual tradition of theTale, as well as presenting a history and bibliography of previousstudies.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0900416602
• ISBN13: 9780900416606
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Griffith Institute
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.3"