The Craft of a Good Scribe - History, Narrative and Meaning in the First Tale of Setne Khaemwas

In The Craft of a Good Scribe, Steve Vinson offers a comprehensive study of the Demotic Egyptian First Tale of Setne Khaemwas (Third Century BCE), the first to appear since 1900.

About the author

Steve Vinson (Ph.D.1995, Johns Hopkins University) is an Associate Professor of Egyptology at Indiana University - Bloomington. He is author of The Nile Boatman at Work (1998), and many articles on ancient Egyptian ships and shipping and on ancient Egyptian literature.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Vinson
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2017
• EAN: 9789004353091
• ISBN: 978-90-04-35309-1
• No. of pages: 370
• Dimensions: 220 mm x 297 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1189 g
• Series: Harvard Egyptological Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity