A World Upturned

• Verse by verse commentary
• Poem analysed in the context of Middle Kingdom culture

Readership: Scholars and students of Ancient Egyptian Literature, Religious History, and the Old Testament.

Roland Enmarch, Lecturer in Egyptology, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool

1: Introduction
2: Literary aspects of Ipuwer
2.1: Description of text
2.2: Survey of previous research
2.3: Textual unity
2.4: Dating
2.5: Reception
2.6: Speakers, section boundaries, and setting of the poem
2.7: Genre and intertext
2.8: Literary style
2.9: Style, structure, and meaning
2.10: Towards a reading of the poem
3: Commentary
3.1: Commentary on Lament I
3.2: Interpretation of Lament I
3.3: Commentary on Lament II
3,4: Interpretation of Lament II
3.5: Commentary on Lament III
3.6: Interpretation of Lament III
3.7: Commentary on Injunction I
3.8: Interpretation of Injunction I
3.9: Commentary on Injunction II
3.10: Interpretation of Injunction II
3.11: Commentary on Injunction III
3.12: Interpretation of Injunction III
3.13: Commentary on Reproach I
.14: Interpretation of Reproach I
3.15: Commentary on the Meditation
3.16: Interpretation of the Meditation
3.17: Commentary on Reply I
3.18: Interpretation of Reply I
3.19: Commentary on Reproach II
3.20: Interpretation of Reproach II
3.21: Commentary on Reply II
3.22: Interpretation of Reply II
3.23: Excursus: the jottings of 17A.1-3
4: Continuous transliteration and translation of Ipuwer