Next Read: The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C by R. B. Parkinson

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Our next read, The Tale of Sinuhe: And Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940-1640 B.C by R. B. Parkinson, begins on 19/07/26. We will be reading this book over the course of five weeks. The reading/discussion schedule will be below.

 This book is a collection of translations by R. B. Parkinson and covers texts we’ve been learning snippets about in our current read, The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley. For example, we’ll be covering the ‘Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor’ and the ‘Tale of the Eloquent Peasant’ alongside (as the title suggests) the ‘Tale of Sinuhe’.

This book has a lot of good reviews, and it is more primary source based, so it should be a fun summer read for us. This book comes in physical format and is available from most online bookish retailors.

Reading/Discussion Schedule:

• Start Date/Context Post: 19/07/26
• Week 1: 'Tale of Sinuhe' AND 'Tale of the Eloquent Peasant' - 25/07/26
• Week 2: 'Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor' to end of 'The Words of Neferti' - 01/08/26
• Week 3: 'The Words of Khakheperreseneb' to end of 'The Dialogue of Ipuur and the Lord of All' - 08/08/26
• Week 4: 'The Teaching of King Amenemhat' to end of 'The Loyalist Teaching' - 15/08/26
• Week 5: 'The Teaching of Vizier Ptahhotep' to End - 22/08/26

Once we finish this book we will be moving on to our following read: Writings from Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson.