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of Illinois in 2001. A selection of Egyptian literary and historical texts can be found in the translations by John A. Wilson, in Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, edited by James B. Pritchard (Princeton, 3rd ed., 1969). This invaluable source also contains translations of Hittite texts by Albrecht Goetze, including the Hittite version of the treaty with Ramses II and Ankhesenamon’s letters to Shubilulliuma. Certain of the Amarna letters are translated by W. F. Albright. A recent, complete translation of the Amarna letters is that of William L. Moran, The Amarna Letters, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

The great Aton hymn is taken directly from Breasted, The Dawn of Conscience, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1933, hence the poetic language. Apparently he felt it was appropriate for a hymn, and it does make the parallels with the King James version of the Psalm more obvious. A more recent translation is that of William Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt, Scholars Press, 1995, pp. 113 ff. Murnane’s excellent volume contains up-to-date translations of the restoration stela of Tutankhamon and other documents of the period, including Harmhab’s Karnak stela. The triumphant hymn to Amon is also from Breasted, The Dawn of Conscience.

There are a number of editions of Manetho. The one I use is the Loeb Classical Library version.

The stories of Sekenenre and the crocodiles and the Kamose stela can be found in Simpson’s useful volume (see Additional Reading). More recent translations of some texts have appeared in articles in such journals as the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology and the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, as well as in journals in languages other than English. I leave it to advanced and/or obsessed students to track them down.

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