Pharaoh's Land and Beyond : Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors

by: Creasman, P.P. Wilkinson, R.H.

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Pharaoh's land and beyond : Ancient Egypt and its neighbors

Authors:Pearce Paul Creasman (Editor), Richard H. Wilkinson (Editor)

Summary:The concept of pharaonic Egypt as a unified, homogeneous, and isolated cultural entity is misleading. Ancient Egypt was a rich tapestry of social, religious, technological, and economic interconnections among numerous cultures from disparate lands. In fifteen chapters divided into five thematic groups, Pharaoh's Land and Beyond uniquely examines Egypt's relationship with its wider world. The first section details the geographical contexts of interconnections by examining ancient Egyptian exploration, maritime routes, and overland passages. In the next section, chapters address the human principals of association: peoples, with the attendant difficulties of differentiating ethnic identities from the record; diplomatic actors, with their complex balances and presentations of power; and the military, with its evolving role in pharaonic expansion. Natural events, from droughts and floods to illness and epidemics, also played significant roles in this ancient world, as examined in the third section. The final two sections explore the physical manifestations of interconnections between pharaonic Egypt and its neighbors, first in the form of material objects and second, in the powerful exchange of ideas. Whether through diffusion and borrowing of knowledge and technology, through the flow of words by script and literature, or through exchanges in the religious sphere, the pharaonic Egypt that we know today was constantly changing--and changing the cultures around it. This illustrious work represents the first synthesis of these cultural relationships, unbounded by time, geography, or mode.

xx, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:
Table of ContentsList of Contributors 4Acknowledgments 6List of Figures and Plates 7Introduction 13 Pearce Paul Creasman and Richard H. WilkinsonSECTION I: PathwaysChapter 1 Finding the Beyond: Exploration 16 Thomas SchneiderChapter 2 Paths in the Deep: Maritime Connections 31 Pearce Paul Creasman and Noreen DoyleChapter 3 Pathways to Distant Kingdoms: Land Connections 52 Gregory MumfordSECTION II: PeopleChapter 4 Children of Other Gods: Social Interactions 80 Bettina BaderChapter 5 Between Brothers: Diplomatic Interactions 100 Richard H. Wilkinson and Noreen DoyleChapter 6 The Armies of Re 118 Anthony SpalingerSECTION III: Objects Chapter 7 The Long Arm of Merchantry: Trade Interactions 143 Samuel MarkChapter 8 Artisans and Their Products: Interaction in Art and Architecture 166 Stuart Tyson SmithChapter 9 Traded, Copied, and Kept: The Ubiquitous Appeal of Scarabs 186 Vanessa BoschloosSECTION IV: IdeasChapter 10 Technology in Transit: The Borrowing of Ideas in Science and Craftwork 206 Ian ShawChapter 11 The Flow of Words: Interaction in Writing and Literature during the Bronze Age Part I: Writing Systems: Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs in the Bronze Age: Script Contact and the Creation of New Scripts 226 Orly Goldwasser Part II: Literature: Egyptian and Levantine Belles-Lettres-Links and Influences during the Bronze Age 238 Noga Ayali-DarshanChapter 12 All Gods Are Our Gods: Religious Interaction Part I: "From Bes to Baal": Religious Interconnections between Egypt and the East 254 Izak Cornelius Part II: Egypt and Nubia 264 Kathryn Howley Part III: Religious Interaction between Egypt and the Aegean in the 2nd Millennium BCE 275 Nanno MarinatosSECTION V: EventsChapter 13 Violence in Earth, Water and Sky: Geological Hazards 284 James A. HarrellChapter 14 The Fickle Nile: Effects of Droughts and Floods 300 Judith BunburyChapter 15 Illness from Afar: Epidemics and Their Aftermath 316 Rosalie DavidReferences and Further Reading 332Index 417

Pharaoh's Land and Beyond : Ancient Egypt and Its Neighbors

by: Creasman, P.P. Wilkinson, R.H.

• ISBN-13: 9780190229078 / 978-0-19-022907-8
• ISBN-03: 0190229071 / 0-19-022907-1
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017

Price: 29,90 EURO

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