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Genre/Form: | Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Material Type: | Document, Thesis/dissertation |
Document Type: | Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Chloé Ragazzoli; Dominique Valbelle; Gaëlle Tallet; Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert; Fayza Haikal; Christian Jacob; Université Paris-Sorbonne (1970-2017).; École doctorale Mondes anciens et médiévaux (Paris).; Orient et Méditerranée (Ivry-sur-Seine, Val de Marne). |
OCLC Number: | 801007624 |
Notes: | Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Responsibility: | Chloé Ragazzoli ; sous la direction de Dominique Valbelle. |
Abstract:
In the New Kingdom (c. 1539-1075 BC) scribes - 'those who write in Egyptian' - took a prominent role in literary texts. There they constructed and promoted a self-image, framing themselves as the members of a specific 'social world' defined by their profession rather than belonging to a social class.This period corresponds to the flourishing of sources dedicated to the scribal trade, especially the Late Egyptian Miscellanies aka 'Teaching by letters'. These collections of small texts were scribal tools and a vademecum of the textual production of the time. Kept by the scribe throughout his career and accompanying him to his tomb, they were a device for producing other texts, while the two other types of teaching, 'Teaching to clear the mind' (onomastica) and 'Teaching from examples' (wisdom texts) dealt respectively with theoretical and practical knowledge.Scribes borrowed phraseology from the top-elite to develop their own code of values, which was based on education, craftsmanship and personal skills. Social structures dependent on professional relationships rather than family were promoted. The development of such a community feeling reflected changes of ideology in progress at the time. A new position was granted to the individual in society through the shift of allegiance from traditional authorities to a personal, almighty god. Thus scribes could turn writing into a pious practice under the aegis of Thot - texts and copies would survive them and grant them posterity. Each manuscript became a potential funerary monument through colophons and signatures. Furthermore, scribes used the decorum of traditional tombs where they left prayers and commemorations as graffiti to their own benefit along with literary offerings. This promotion of the written word over the spoken one is echoed in monumental biographies of the top-elite and bears witness to the diffusion of learned values during this period.
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