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Whose pharaohs? archaeology, museums, and Egyptian national identity from Napoleon to World War I / by Reid, Donald M. (Donald Malcolm), 1940-

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The last pharaohs Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC / by Manning, Joseph Gilbert

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Pharaoh's flowers the botanical treasures of Tutankhamun / by Hepper, F. N.

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From slave to pharaoh : the black experience of ancient Egypt / by Redford, Donald B.

Table of Contents: “…Egyptians and Nubians -- The problem of frontiers -- Nubia : Egypt's primary sphere of influence -- "Plotting in their valleys" : the unruly tribesmen -- From chiefdom to state and back again : the final conquest of Kush -- The Egyptian empire in Kush -- The silent years : the abandonment of Lower Nubia and the rise of Napata -- The Sudan invades Egypt -- The invasion of Piankhy -- The twenty-fourth dynasty -- The resistance to Assyrian expansion -- "Taharqa the conqueror" -- Egypt of the "black pharaohs" -- Thebes under the twenty-fifth dynasty -- The end of the twenty-fifth dynasty in Egypt.…”
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Amarna sunset Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian counter-reformation / by Dodson, Aidan, 1962-

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Amenhotep III Egypt's radiant pharaoh / by Kozloff, Arielle P.

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Conflicted Antiquities : Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity / by Colla, Elliott, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Egyptian Sculpture Room -- The Artifaction of the Memnon Head -- Ozymandias -- Conflicted Antiquities: Islam's Pharaoh and Emergent Egyptology -- The Antiqakhana -- Pharaonic Selves -- Two Pharaohs -- The Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb: Archaeology, Politics, Literature -- Nahdat Misr -- Pharaonism after Pharaonism: Mahfouz and Qutb.…”
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The Egyptian press and coverage of local and international events by El-Bendary, Mohamed, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The Egyptian press -- Theoretical perspectives -- Protesters in Pharaohs' land : Egyptian newspaper coverage of the Sudanese refugees riot -- Who is responsible? …”
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Legal friction law, narrative, and identity politics in biblical Israel / by Hepner, Gershon

Table of Contents: “…Moses' unsuccessful attempt to resolve disputes reflects an attempt to enforce the covenant code -- Surviving the construction industry : Pharaoh's decrees force the Israelites to violate the Sabbath and the covenant code -- The remains of the day : Manna, God's seed, is resurrected by the Sabbath like the resurrection of two boys by Elijah and Elisha -- Overexposed : the Israelites' suspicion that Moses had violated the prohibition of exposing one's nakedness before God leads to the sin of the golden calf -- Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow : 'the morrow of the Sabbath' in Leviticus 23:11-17 commemorates a 'high-handed' exodus -- So goodbye, dear, and amen : the priestly law of the jealous husband transforms the deuteronomic law of divorce -- Divine dermatology : Miriam's scale disease resembles a food forbidden in Leviticus 11 and constitutes a hidden polemic condoning intermarriage -- Holy war : interplay between the deuteronomic law of warfare (Deuteronomy 20:1-4), Exodus 14, and Isaiah 52:7-12 -- Blood suckers : the deuteronomic law of Amalek reflects the concern for underdogs -- Le(vite) divorce : the fate of the concubine at Giveah reflects the deuteronomic law of divorce -- Le mariage : the Benjaminites' marriage echoes the holiness code's marriage sacrament described in the law of the horticultural holiness (Leviticus 19:23-25) -- Hemorrhoid city : the Philistines' plague of hemorrhoids alludes to Pharaoh's fecal heart syndrome and to a deuteronomic law regarding the disposal of excrement -- Sticks and stones : holiness code's law of the blasphemer and Talion law allude to events involving Shimei the Son of Gera and Goliath -- Beyond the fringes : the tassel law cited in Ruth counters anti-davidic polemics associated with Tamar and Lot's daughters --…”
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Between evidence and ideology essays on the history of ancient Israel read at the joint meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oud Testamentisch Werkgezelschap, Lin...

Table of Contents: “…Grabbe -- Hasidisms and their militant ideologies : 1 and 2 Maccabees, Psalms 144 and 149 / Harm van Grol -- The Old Testament as a diachronic corpus / Marinus Koster -- Pharaoh Shishak's invasion of Palestine and the Exodus from Egypt / Andrew Mayes -- The Greek Esthers and the search for history : some preliminary observations / Jill Middlemass -- Does archaeology really deserve the status of a 'high court' in biblical historical research? …”
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The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world by Jones, Linda G.

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Egypt a short history : with a new afterword by the author / by Tignor, Robert L.

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