EAN: 9783447110693

LES RECOMMANDATIONS AUX PRÊTRES DANS LES TEMPLE...

The texts traditionally called Recommendations to priests are hieroglyphic inscriptions
engraved between the middle of the 2nd BC and the 1st AD in the service side doors of some
temples of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods (Edfu  Dendera  Kom Ombo and Philae). These texts
are very original in that they exhort the priests who enter the temple to adopt an exemplary
conduct with stated rules. They have been known since the 19th century  but no comprehensive
study has so far been devoted to them.This book fills that gap. First of all  it constitutes
the first complete edition of this corpus: on the basis of a new establishment of the text and
a systematic comparison with contemporary and earlier private priestly inscriptions  the corpus
is fully translated and commented. It also seeks to provide answers to the complex and
fundamental question of the relationship between the different versions of the Recommendations
to priests. Finally  it provides the reader with new answers to questions concerning the
delimitation of the corpus  the structuring of texts  their transmission and their nature. The
work thus demonstrates in particular that the homogeneity of the texts is only apparent and
that there is in reality heterogeneity of nature: some texts are resolutely rhetorical and
literary while others are clearly normative. This heterogeneity is the result of the history of
genesis and of the transmission of texts  the reconstruction of which leads to the
establishment of the existence of a pre-original version of the Recommendations to priests.

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