Egyptian Library--Please Repost!
I. Khalil
Egypt, can you repost your article?
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The Hab
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From: pr...@ellis.uchicago.edu ()
Subject: Re: What books needed in a library about Egypt?
Organization: The University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 21:52:51 GMT
In article <437vil$q...@muss.CIS.McMaster.CA>,
I. Khalil <u911...@muss.cis.McMaster.CA> wrote:
>If I were to walk in to a library on ancient Egypt, what books would I
>see? Please list the more respected authors on any subject on ancient
>Egypt. Would this library include Budge, Faulkner, Champollion, Hoffman,
>etc..? Who else?
Having had the good fortune to have access to the resources of the Oriental
Institute's Research Archives over the past several years, I feel qualified
to provide at least a partial list of basic reference books on various
aspects of ancient Egypt.
Compiling a list of all notable Egyptological references is a task which is
literally a full-time job. Nevertheless, it is still possible to list some
'essential' books which can be acquired relatively easily, as well as the
important reference books which one should be aware of.
I have had the opportunity in the past few years to teach a couple of
undergraduate classes on ancient Egypt, and I give the students a
Bibliography of just this type: i.e., those books which can be found easily in
new or used bookstores, along with the most important major reference works.
This list could easily be expanded to many times its length; there are dozens
of other perfectly good books which are not mentioned here, so their exclusion
does not reflect negatively on their merit. The line has to be drawn somewhere.
Call numbers in the LoC system are listed for some books; be aware that other
libraries may or may not use a different call number.
Your feedback is welcome; if you would like a more detailed description of any
of these books, I'd be happy to do so; if you think there is some book which
really should be included (or excluded) let me know.
Ancient Egypt Bibliography
Comprehensive
PJ1016.H5 Helck, W. et al., ed., Lexicon der Aegyptologie, 6 vol.,
Wiesbaden, 1975-86
Geographical/Cultural Surveys
DT56.9.B340 Baines, J., and J. Malek, Atlas of Ancient Egypt, Oxford, 1978
James, T., Ancient Egypt: The Land and its Legacy, Austin, 1990
Kees, H., Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography, Chicago, 1961
Historical, Cultural and Archaeological Background
Aldred, C., Egypt to the End of the Old Kingdom, London, 1965
DT87.A65 ---------- The Egyptians (Ancient Peoples and Places),
New York, revised ed., 1984
DT87.4A25 ---------- Akhenaten, King of Egypt, New York, 1988
DT83.B782 Breasted, J., A History of Egypt, New York, 1905
DG268.T35 Cambridge Ancient History 3rd ed., vol.1, part 2 and vol.2,
part 1
David, R., Discovering Ancient Egypt, New York, 1993
DT83.D72 Drioton, E. and J. Vandier, L'Egypte, 5th ed., Paris, 1975
DT60.E71 Erman, A., Life in Ancient Egypt, (trans.) London, 1894 (reprinted by Dover with new introduction, 1971)
DT83.G2 Gardiner, A., Egypt of the Pharaohs, Oxford, 1969
DT60.G74 Greener, L., The Discovery of Egypt, New York, 1967
(reprinted 1989)
DT61.G5x Harris, J., ed., The Legacy of Egypt, 2nd ed. Oxford, 1961
DT58.443 Hayes, W., The Sceptre of Egypt, 2 vol., Cambridge Mass.,
1953-59
G1.N27 --------- "Daily Life in Ancient Egypt", National Geographic,
LXXX, 4 (Oct. 1941); reprinted in Everyday Life in
Ancient Times, Washington DC, 1958
D58.H5 Herodotus, Book 2 of the History (many translations available)
DT60.H360 Hobson, C., The World of the Pharaohs, New York, 1987
Hoffman, M., Egypt Before the Pharaohs, New York, 1979
Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization, New York,
1989
Seton-Williams, V. and P.Stocks, Blue Guide: Egypt, New York
DT83.S84 Steindorf, G. and K. Seele, When Egypt Ruled the East, Chicago
1964
Wilkinson, J.G., The Ancient Egyptians, Their Life and Customs,
(reprint of 1853 ed.) London, 1994
DT61.W48 Willoughby, K. and E. Stanton, ed., The First Egyptians,
Univ. of South Carolina, 1988
DT61.W48 Wilson, J., Signs and Wonders upon Pharaoh, Chicago, 1964
---------- Thousands of Years, New York, 1972
Language
PJ1097.D40 Davies, W., Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Reading the Past) London,
1987
PJ1430.E62 Erman, A. and H. Grapow, Worterbuch der aegyptischen Sprache,
5 vol., Leipzig, 1926-31
Faulkner, R., Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford,
1962
PJ1135.E62 Gardiner, A., Egyptian Grammar, 3rd ed., Oxford, 1957
PJ1052.I9 Iversen, E., The Myth of Egypt and its Hieroglyphs in European
Tradition, Princeton, 1961; reprinted with new intro,
1993
PJ1097.W3 Watterson, B., Introducing Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Edinburgh,
1981
PJ1097.W32x ---------- More About Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Edinburgh, 1985
Translations
DT57.B76 Breasted, J., Ancient Records of Egypt: The Historical
Documents, 5 vol., New York, 1906
Erman, A., The Ancient Egyptians: A Sourcebook of Their
Writings, (trans. with new introduction) London, 1966
PJ1943.L5 Lichtheim, M., Ancient Egyptian Literature:
Vol. 1: The Old and Middle Kingdom, Berkeley, 1973
Vol. 2: The New Kingdom, Berkeley, 1976
Vol. 3: The Late Period, Berkeley, 1980
Maspero, G., Popular Stories of Ancient Egypt, (1967 reprint
of 1915 ed.) New York, 1967
PJ1943.V60 Parkinson, R., Voices from Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of
Middle Kingdom Writings, Norman OK, 1991
Simpson, W., ed., The Literature of Ancient Egypt, 2nd ed.,
New Haven, 1973
BS1180.P83 Wilson, J., "Egyptian Texts", in Pritchard, J., ed., Ancient
Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament,
2nd ed., Princeton, 1955
Art
Aldred, C., Egyptian Art, London, 1980
N5350.I19 Iverson, E., Canon and Proportion in Egyptian Art, London,
1955
N5350.S313x Schaefer, H. Principles of Egyptian Art, trans. J.Baines,
Oxford,1974
N5350.S5 Smith, W. The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt, Penguin,
1958
Wilkinson, R., Reading Egyptian Art, New York, 1992
---------- Symbol & Magic in Egyptian Art, New York, 1994
Architecture
NA215.B3x Badawy, A., A History of Egyptian Architecture: Vol. 1, Giza,
1954; Vol. 2, Berkeley, 1966; Vol. 3, Berkeley, 1968
Clarke, S., and R. Englebach, Ancient Egyptian Masonry,
London,1930
NA215.S6 Smith, E., Egyptian Architecture as Cultural Expression,
New York, 1938
Tombs/Pyramids
DT87.5C4 Carter, H., The Tomb of Tutankhamen, 3 vol., New York, 1923-33
(vol. 1 has been reprinted in several recent editions)
DT63.E3 Edwards, I., The Pyramids of Egypt, (revised ed.), London, 1985
DT63.F3 Fakhry, A. The Pyramids, Chicago, 1961
DT73.H Hornung, E., The Valley of the Kings: Horizon of Eternity,
(trans.) New York, 1990
Reeves, N., The Complete Tutankhamon, New York, 1990
DT62.T6R4 Reisner, G., The Development of the Egyptian Tomb Down to the
Accession of Cheops, Cambridge, Mass., 1936
Romer, J., The Valley of the Kings, New York, 1981
Science and Technology
QA22.N36 Neugebauer, O., The Exact Sciences in Antiquity, Princeton,
1952
Q125.S246 Sarton, G., A History of Science: Vol.1, Ancient Science
Through the Golden Age of Greece, Cambridge, Mass.,
1952
Health/Medicine
David, R., ed., Mysteries of the Mummies, London, 1978
ES1c15v.34 Leigh, R. Notes on the Somatology and Pathology of Ancient
Egypt, Berkeley, 1934
Religion/Mythology
BL2443.B56 Bleeker, C., Egyptian Festivals: Enactments of Religious
Renewal, Leiden, 1967
BL2450.H3B56 ---------- Hathor and Thoth, Leiden, 1973
Bonnefoy, Y., Mythologies, (trans.) Chapter 2, Chicago, 1991
BL2441.B7 Breasted, J., The Development of Religion and Thought in
Ancient Egypt, New York, 1912
DJ132.B7 ---------- The Dawn of Conscience, New York, 1933
BL2441.B83 Budge, E., The Gods of the Egyptians, 2 vol., Chicago, 1904
(reprinted 1969)
PJ1555.E5B73 ---------- The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani,
London, 1896 (reprinted 1967)
PJ1555.A5 ---------- Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, 2 vol.,
London,1911 (reprinted 1973)
Cerny, J., Ancient Egyptian Religion, London, 1952
David, R., The Ancient Egyptians: Religious Beliefs and
Practices, London, 1982
BL1060.D713 Drioton, E., Religions of the Ancient East, New York, 1959
Frankfort, H., Ancient Egyptian Religion, New York, 1948
Hart, G., A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, London,
1986
Hornung, E., Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt, Cornell
Univ. Press, 1982
Lurker, M., The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Egypt, New York,
1980 (reprinted 1994)
Quirke, S., Ancient Egyptian Religion, London, 1992
Rundle-Clark, R., Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt, London,
1959 (Reprinted 1993)
Ethnicity
Yurco, F., "Were the Ancient Egyptians Black or White?" in
Biblical Archaeology Review 15, 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1989)
24-29; see also the responses in issue 16, 2
(Mar.-Apr. 1990)
Journals
JEA, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
JARCE, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt
ZAS, Zeitschrift fur Aegyptische Sprache
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Bruce Precourt
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