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Very good. vii, [1], 248 pages. Commentary on the text. Translation. Photographs and Transcription of Papyrus Berlin 3024. Indexes. Signed by Skip Kissinger ( the diplomat? ) on fep. Minor soiling. Hans G. Goedicke was a renowned Egyptologist who had been chairman of the Johns Hopkins University's department of Near Eastern studies. He was certainly one of the most productive modern Egyptologists, whose range and interests covered almost the entire span of Egyptian history. He is particularly known for his work on the Old Kingdom, the Pyramid Age. He conducted an epigraphic survey in Aswan, Gharb Aswan and Gebel Tingar in 1964 and 1967, and was field director of Hopkins' excavations in Giza in 1972 and 1974. He also was director of the Hopkins survey in the Wadi Tumilat in 1977, 1978 and 1981. The books, monographs and articles listed in Dr. Goedicke's curriculum vitae runs to an impressive 26 pages. The Dispute between a man and his Ba or The Debate Between a Man and his Soul[1] is an ancient Egyptian text dating to the Middle Kingdom about a man deeply unhappy with his life. It is part of the so-called Wisdom literature and takes the form of a dialogue between a man and his ba. The beginning of the text is missing, there are a number of lacunae, and translation of the remainder is difficult. The only copy to survive, consisting of 155 columns of hieratic writing, is on the recto of Papyrus Berlin 3024. The papyrus was bought by the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius in Egypt in 1843 and is now in the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung belonging to the Berlin State Museums. The first edition was published during 1859, and subsequently numerously translated, with sometimes widely differing interpretation. The man accuses his ba of wanting to desert him, of dragging him towards death before his time. He says that life is too heavy for him to bear, that his heart would come to rest in the West (i.e. the afterlife), his name would survive and his body would be protected. He urges his ba to be patient and wait for a son to be born to make the offerings the deceased need in the afterlife. His ba describes the sadness death brings and retorts to the man's complaints about his lack of worth, his being cut off from humanity and the attractiveness of death by exhorting him to embrace life and promises to stay with him.
