The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth

Joshua Aaron Roberson

This volume examines the history, evolution, function, and meaning of a discrete corpus of cosmological texts and images employed in royal and, later, private mortuary contexts from the early Nineteenth Dynasty through the Greco-Roman era.

Wilbour Studies in Egypt and Ancient Western Asia, 1                                                                          

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Palamedes: A Journal of Ancient History,

vol. 6 (2011)

Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies,

vol. 2 (2011)

A Reader of Classical Arabic Literature

annotated and edited by S. A. Bonebakker and M. Fishbein (Reprint edition, March 2012)

“The book is very well thought out and thorough, including a range of supplementary materials in support of the text and the interpretive task … the apparatuses in the book are stunning, providing a rich resource guide for students embarking on their adventures in Arabic medieval texts.”                                                                    — Journal of Arabic Literature

Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies, 1                                                                                               

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The Edwin Smith Papyrus: Updated Translation of the Trauma Treatise and Modern Medical Commentaries

Gonzalo M. Sanchez and Edmund S. Meltzer

This volume contains the original hieratic text, complete transcription into hieroglyphs, transliteration, English translation, philological apparatus and copiously illustrated medical commentaries for the for the 48 clinical cases of the Edwin Smith Papyrus, as well as extensive bibliographical resources, and a lucid introduction exploring the importance of the document, the history of previous scholarship, and distinctive aspects of the current edition. It offers an authoritative treatment of the Egyptian text, which clarifies the meaning of many passages from the papyrus and points the way to their correct medical interpretation.