Complete Middle Egyptian
A New Method for Understanding Hieroglyphs: Reading Texts in Context
$85.42
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
8 August 2017
Summary
Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, COMPLETE MIDDLE EGYPTIAN offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, access inscriptions in documents and monuments and even teaching you how to draw hieroglyphs yourself.
Structured around key artefacts and introducing both the original hieroglyphs and transliteration (for easier understanding) this course also features:
- 16 learning units plus pronunciat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473609792 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473609798 |
| Author: | Richard Bussmann |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Teach Yourself |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 8 August 2017 |
| Weight: | 640g |
| Dimensions: | 244mm x 188mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Complete Language Courses |
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Critics Review
For those who like learning new languages using so-called contextual learning and learning by discovery rather than old-fashioned study of paradigms and memorization, this book might be just the place for you to learn Middle Egyptian, the basic language underlying Egyptian hieroglyphs. * Janet H. Johnson, Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Egyptology, Oriental Institute, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago *
About The Author
Richard Bussmann
Richard Bussmann has a PhD in Egyptology. He has studied all phases of Ancient Egyptian language and has taught beginner and advanced courses in Middle Egyptian language firstly at UCL and now at the University of Cologne. He also co-directs an excavation project in Middle Egypt.
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