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Bibliography for Egyptian Literature
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Allen 1950. Thomas George Allen. Occurrences of pyramid texts, with cross indexes of these and other Egyptian mortuary texts. Chicago

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Assmann 1970. Jan Assmann. Der König als Sonnenpriester: ein kosmographischer Begleittext zur kultischen Sonnenhymnik in thebanischen Tempeln und Gräber. Glückstadt

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Baines 1983. John Baines. Literacy and Ancient Egyptian Society. In Man, New Series, 18, London 1983. 572-599

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Cook 1997. Edward M. Cook. 'Aramaic Language and Literature'. The Oxford Encyclepedia of Archaeology in the Near Eat. Edited by Eric M. Meyers. New York. Oxford. 178-184

Crum 1893. Walter Crum. Coptic manuscripts brought from the Fayyum by W M Flinders Petrie. London

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Edel 1955. Elmar Edel. Altägyptische Grammatik. Analecta orientalia 34. Rome

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Fischer-Elfert 2002. H.-W. Fischer-Elfert, Quelques textes et une vignette du Papyrus magique no 1826 de la Bibliotheque nationale d'Athenes, in Y.Koenig. La magie en Egypte: a la recherche d'une definition, Paris 2002, 167-184

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Gardiner 1955. Alan H. Gardiner. The Ramesseum Papyri. Oxford

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Lichtheim 1973. Miriam Lichtheim. Ancient Egyptian literature: a book of readings. Vol.1. The Old and Middle Kingdoms. Berkeley/London

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Lichtheim 1980. Miriam Lichtheim. Ancient Egyptian literature: a book of readings. Vol.3. The Late Period. Berkeley/London

Lopez 1963. J. Lopez. 'Le Papyrus Millingen', in Revue d'Egyptologie 15 (1963), 29-33 and pl.4-8

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Loprieno 1996. Antonio Loprieno. The "King's Novel". In A.Loprieno (ed.), Ancient Egyptian Literature, history and forms. Leiden 1996. 277-295

Lotman 1970. Yuri Lotman. The Structure of the Literary Text. Moscow (in Russian)

Lotman 1977. Jurij Lotman. The structure of the artistic text /translated from the Russian by Gail Lenhoff and Ronald Vroon

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Malinine 1934. Michel M. Malinine. Un Fragment de l'enseignement d' Amenemhat Ier. BIFAO 34 (1934). 63-74

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Mokhtar 1984. Gamal Mokhtar et al. The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices. Introduction. Leiden

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