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E. A. Wallis Budge Egyptian Hieroglyphic Reading Book for Beginners
Dover Publications 0486274861 / 9780486274867 PAPERBACK Good
0486274861 ISBN: 0486274861 Trade Paperback, 592 pages. G+. Light wear, creases, otherwise a solid unmarked copy. Dover Publications, Inc., Unabrigded, Unaltered Republication, 1993. Foreign Language, Hieroglyphics, Ancient Egypt. Book Description: 20 Egyptian texts ? dating from c. 2400 BC to 250 BC ? on historical, religious, funereal, other topics printed in hieroglyphics together with transliterations and a complete vocabulary. Also included are full English translations of 8 of the texts. "The Tale of Two Brothers," "The Possessed Princess of Bekhten," many more WHY TRASH BUDGE.......THE REAL REASON......, September 6, 2006 Reviewer: Donald Peyton (Virginia, USA) - Budge's work is great. Yes, his style of English is out of date and his tranliterations are different. For example, modern writers prefer to transliterate "ntr" as: NEJER or NECHER. Budge uses NETER. Many points of Egyptian grammar remain unclear and much of what passes for "modern translations" are more guess work than actual translations. The real reason Budge is trashed so often has nothing to do with his translations at all! After many years of study Budge abandoned the pure assertion that ancient Egypt was a "Oriental" or "Eastern culture". Years of objective study of the language, religion and customs of the ancient Egyptians led Budge screaming and kicking, I might add, to the realization that the religion of the Egyptians was BLACK AFRICAN, the language was a BLACK AFRICAN language and the customs were purely African. The ancient Egyptians were "African negroes" wrote Budge in several of his later works. In spite of the anti-African racism that we find in his earlier and even his later works, Budge rose above his prejudices and followed where the facts led him: to Black Africa!! Not Asia. Many modern African scholars have confirmed that the language of ancient Egypt was a "typical Black African language. For example Dr. Theophile Obenga has proven the genetic linguistic relationship between the language spoken by the ancient Egyptians and modern Black African languages. No competent linguist can demonstrate that the language of ancient Egypt has any genetic relationship to the Semitic languages....it can not be done!!! When you study the language of ancient Egypt you study an ancient Black African language, like it or not!! In a nutshell, that is the real reason that Budge is so often trashed. His works are old, but his works are very useful and if studied seriously, one can learn to read the language. It is not easy, if you have a talent for languages that will help, in any case, it will be a long hard grind. But well worth it!!!! May ship from alternate location depending on your zip code and availability.
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