The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Second Edition

by James P. Allen

SBL Press, 2015

Cloth: 978-1-62837-115-4 | Paper: 978-1-62837-114-7 | eISBN: 978-1-62837-116-1

Library of Congress Classification BL2430.P9713 2015

Dewey Decimal Classification 299.3138

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Completely revised and updated

James P. Allen provides a translation of the oldest corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts from the six royal pyramids of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties (ca. 2350–2150 BCE). Allen’s revisions take into account recent advances in the understanding of Egyptian grammar.

Features:

Sequential translations based on all available sources, including texts newly discovered in the last decade
Texts numbered according to the most widely used numbering system with new numbers from the latest 2013 concordance
Translations reflect the primarily atemporal verbal system of Old Egyptian, which conveys the timeless quality that the text’s authors understood the texts to have

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