Never Had the Like Occurred' examines Ancient Egypt's own multifaceted encounters with its past. As Egyptian culture constantly changed and evolved, this book follows a chronological arrangement, from early Egypt to the attitudes of the Coptic population in the Byzantine Period. Within this framework, it asks what access the Egyptians had to information about the past, whether deliberately or accidentally acquired; what use was made of the past; what were the Egyptians attitudes to the past; what sense of past time did the Egyptians have; and what kinds of reverence for the past did they entertain? This is the first book dedicated to the whole range of these themes. It provides an explanatory context for the numerous previous studies that have dealt with particular sets of evidence, particular periods, or particular issues. It provides a case study of how civilizations may view and utilize their past.
Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Left Coast Press; 2nd edition edition (October 15, 2003) Language: English ISBN-10: 159874206X ISBN-13: 978-1598742060
John W. Tait (born 1945) is a British Edwards Professor of Egyptology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and was the head of the department till 2010.[1][2] He received his Ph.D in Egyptian and Greek Papyrology from the University of Oxford.] His research focuses on Ancient Egyptian literature, including documents written in hieroglyphs, hieratic, Demotic, and Greek. He has also worked as a member of the Project for the Publication of the Carlsberg Papyri and the Egypt Exploration Society.
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I remember reading many years ago from a book (it wasn't the one of this thread) but another book that deals with the subject of Egyptians own views on their past and where they came from. I wish I could remember the title but basically the author who is an Egyptologists says the views of the Egyptian people varied and coalesced over time. Originally during predynastic times the views were tribal views that varied from tribe to tribe which then became nomes. These different tribal or nome views remained throughout much of the dynastic period though due to nationalist movements some of these views became more dominant than others along with certain deities. It was only by Christian period that Biblical beliefs in the Mizraim (Egypt) being one of the Sons of Ham finally prevailed which largely remained even during the Islamic conquest.
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