![]() Allen’s Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs. Hoch’s Middle Egyptian Grammar, but his recommendation for a newcomer to the language is J. LeBlanc got his start in Middle Egyptian with J. Here are his recommendations for someone curious about getting started with Middle Egyptian, including textbooks, grammars, lexica, and other resources, and where you can find them at ISAW. I sat down recently with LeBlanc, who earned his doctorate in Egyptology from Yale, to discuss learning Middle Egyptian. When I heard that ISAW Assistant Director for Academic Affairs, Marc LeBlanc, was teaching a directed reading in Middle Egyptian this fall, I wondered how a curious student would go about getting a handle on the language. Like many New Yorkers, I remember my curiosity about Egyptian being piqued at an early age by a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and seeing, for example, the hieroglyphic inscriptions in the reliefs. The “middle” separates this phase of the Egyptian language from that of the previous millennium, or Old Egyptian (for example, the “ pyramid” texts), and Late Egyptian, which begins in the second half of the New Kingdom and lasts until roughly 700 BCE with the emergence of Demotic. We also have papyri from this period written in a cursive script known as hieratic. ![]() ![]() Funerary inscriptions, wisdom texts, heroic narratives like the “ Tale of Sinuhe” or the “ Shipwrecked Sailor,” and religious hymns have all come down to us in Middle Egyptian hieroglyphic. It is also the written, hieroglyphic language of this period and so the medium in which the classical Egyptian literature of this period is transmitted. Middle Egyptian, sometimes referred to as Classical Egyptian, refers to the language spoken at Egypt from the beginning of the second millennium BCE to roughly 1300 BCE, or midway through the New Kingdom. ![]()
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