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This volume deals with the complex question of time and aspect in ancient Egyptian. The first part presents an original theoretical model which challenges some well-established facts in general linguistics. The functioning of aspect is explained as a dialectic process between the grammatical tenses, the actionality of events, the semantic roles of the participants, and diverse lexical means. The second part examines the expression of aspect in ancient Egyptian, with a diachronic presentation from the beginning down to Late Egyptian. The third and last part is devoted to the study of the temporal relation. The argumentation is illustrated by more than 800 examples and numerous figures.

Egyptian language --- Egyptien (Langue) --- Tense --- Aspect --- Temps --- Afroasiatic languages --- Egyptian language - Tense --- Egyptian language - Aspect --- Tense. --- Aspect.

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This book, the first of its kind, examines how the phonology and grammar of the ancient Egyptian language changed over more than three thousand years of its history, from the first appearance of written documents, c.3250 BC, to the Coptic dialects of the second century AD and later. Part One discusses phonology, working backward from the vowels and consonants of Coptic to those that can be deduced for earlier stages of the language. Part Two is devoted to grammar, including both basic components such as nouns and the complex history of the verbal system. The book thus provides both a synchronic description of the five major historical stages of ancient Egyptian and a diachronic analysis of their development and relationship.

Hamitic languages --- Historical linguistics --- Egyptian language --- Egyptien (Langue) --- History. --- Grammar --- Phonology --- Histoire --- Grammaire --- Phonologie --- History --- Grammar, Historical --- Grammar, Historical. --- Phonology. --- Afroasiatic languages --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Egyptian language - History --- Egyptian language - Grammar, Historical --- Egyptian language - Phonology

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This book is an investigation into the sphere of production and use of two related bilingual magical handbooks found as part of a larger collection of magical and alchemical manuscripts around 1828 in the hills surrounding Luxor, Egypt. Both handbooks, dating to the Roman period, contain an assortment of recipes for magical rites in the Demotic and Greek language. The library which comprises these two handbooks is nowadays better known as the Theban Magical Library. The book traces the social and cultural milieu of the composers, compilers and users of the extant spells through a combination of philology, sociolinguistics and cultural analysis. To anybody working on Greco-Roman Egypt, ancient magic, and bilingualism this study is of significant importance.

Magic, Egyptian --- Rites and ceremonies --- Bilingualism --- Egyptian language --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) --- Magie --- Rites et cérémonies --- Bilinguisme --- Egyptien (Langue) --- Papyrus grecs --- History --- Papyri, Demotic. --- Histoire --- Papyrus démotiques --- Egypt --- Egypte --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Magic --- 133.430932 --- Philosophy & psychology Magic Ancient World Egypt --- Rites et cérémonies --- Papyrus démotiques --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Demotic writing --- Manuscripts, Demotic (Papyri) --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Multilingualism --- Papyri, Demotic --- To 1500 --- Papyri [Demotic ] --- Manuscripts [Greek ] (Papyri) --- 332 B.C.-638 A.D. --- Bilingualism. --- Civilization. --- Magic. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Greek papyri --- Papyri, Greek --- Manuscripts, Classical (Papyri) --- Manuscripts (Papyri) --- Barbarism --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- Egypt. --- A.R.E. --- Ägypten --- Ancient Egypt --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- ARE --- Egipat --- Egipet --- Egipt --- Egiptos --- Egitto --- Égypte --- Egypten --- Egypti --- Ejiputo --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- Ijiptʻ --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Khēmi --- Maṣr --- Miṣr --- Misri --- Mitsrayim --- United Arab Republic --- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT --- Demotisch. --- Egyptian language. --- Egyptische handschriften. --- Griekse handschriften. --- Magie. --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri). --- Toverspreuken. --- Égyptien (Langue) --- Magick Studies. --- Witchcraft & Wicca. --- Papyrus démotiques. --- To 1500. --- Égypte --- Magic - Egypt. --- Rites and ceremonies - Egypt. --- Bilingualism - Egypt - History - To 1500. --- Egyptian language - Papyri, Demotic. --- Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) - Egypt.

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A contemporary of Descartes and Newton, Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2-80), was one of Europe's most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. He published more than thirty works in fields as diverse as astronomy, magnetism, cryptology, numerology, geology, and music. But Kircher is most famous-or infamous-for his quixotic attempt to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs and reconstruct the ancient traditions they encoded. In 1655, after more than two decades of toil, Kircher published his solution to the hieroglyphs, Oedipus Aegyptiacus, a work that has been called "one of the most learned monstrosities of all times." Here Daniel Stolzenberg presents a new interpretation of Kircher's hieroglyphic studies, placing them in the context of seventeenth-century scholarship on paganism and Oriental languages. Situating Kircher in the social world of baroque Rome, with its scholars, artists, patrons, and censors, Stolzenberg shows how Kircher's study of ancient paganism depended on the circulation of texts, artifacts, and people between Christian and Islamic civilizations. Along with other participants in the rise of Oriental studies, Kircher aimed to revolutionize the study of the past by mastering Near Eastern languages and recovering ancient manuscripts hidden away in the legendary libraries of Cairo and Damascus. The spectacular flaws of his scholarship have fostered an image of Kircher as an eccentric anachronism, a throwback to the Renaissance hermetic tradition. Stolzenberg argues against this view, showing how Kircher embodied essential tensions of a pivotal phase in European intellectual history, when pre-Enlightenment scholars pioneered modern empirical methods of studying the past while still working within traditional frameworks, such as biblical history and beliefs about magic and esoteric wisdom.

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