OI Ancient Literature Workshops, Session 1: Literature in Ancient Egyptian Society

The ancient Egyptians wielded the written word with a great sense of responsibility. Join us for this introductory workshop to our seven week Ancient Egyptian Literature Series, as Joey Cross, PhD candidate, asks the question, "What was literature to the ancient Egyptians?"
Cross dives into the Amenemope text to examine the role that writing played in ancient Egyptian society, tracing the impact of the written word while exploring the production of papyrus, and the training of scribes.
Join us next week, February 20 at 10 a.m. (CST) for our next installment.
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[@jeanvford]

Measured, thoughtful, and accessible exegesis encompassing not only the Amenemope text, but the wider subtext of Egyptian civilized mores and their impact on the wider world, including our own.

[@amandasargi8227]

I am really loving this playlist! so informative, very good speakers and subjects. I really hope to continue to see more of this type of content! Thank you!!

[@JDG602]

Thank you for this lecture it was very illuminating and I am very grateful. I just started reading Egyptian literature the other day from Litchiem's "Ancient Egyptian Literature" series of books. I was surprised at how good the literature was and why it is not perceived by some as "great literature". I really enjoy it and definitely consider it great literature. It really takes you inside the Egyptian culture and the thoughts of its people. Thanks again.

[@danilakovalev7669]

Thank you very much for detais of papyri manufacturing process, it was quite insightful I was not aware about these details.

[@sherylcrowe3255]

Fantastic! Thank you for your hard work.

[@HebaruSan]

Copying documents may also ensure that copies of those documents continue to exist in a pre-printing press society.

[@madlycan]

awesome stuff! : D

[@muchi1465]

The description needs a small correction, for the grammar error, that is "egyptians" being written with a capital letter.

[@dianapatterson1559]

Thank you for this. I enjoyed it. But just in case you might publish this in another form, it is "all that glisters". I know, it is too weird, so I'd use another "proverb".

[@handler8838]

Marcus Aureliope imo.

[@mediocrates3416]

"Lord of All" ... That's kind of a big deal for pagan Egypt?

[@Rossion64]

Egypt was pagan only insofar as it's God wasn't called Yahweh

[@mediocrates3416]

@@Rossion64 Please explain. Do you mean Aten? That's why i ask.

[@Rossion64]

@@mediocrates3416 not specifically Aten. The Egyptian concept by the late Middle Kingdom was that 'God is One, but shows forth as many" They had an extremely sophisticated view of divinity, quite as profound as the theologies of the Hindu sages. Egyptian theology was a very big influence on Pythagoras and Plato and the Platonists. Hence it was a huge influence on European thought

[@doeweiss1]

Great presentation - well-organized, informative, interesting, and accessible, even for a non-scholar like me. Your enthusiasm and unpretentious style made it thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you!

[@moodist1er]

@@mediocrates3416 as far as the term "pagan" goes, it's propaganda terminology for "not Christian" or "not Abrahamic". Like when people say "people of color" they mean "not white" which is also just propaganda terminology that was invented to manufacture consent through an illusion of consensus in favor of the ruling class.

[@muchi1465]

Problemaatics