Fra Ægypteninteresse til Ægypteninspiration i Sinuhe

Michael Alexander Langkjær

Fra Ægypteninteresse til Ægypteninspiration i Sinuhe

Studienævnet for Saxo-Instituttet

Abstract

The Finnish author Mika Waltari wrote the best-selling novel The Egyptian in 1945, inspired by the hopes, disappointments and disasters of the previous decades. The book occasioned widespread interest in Ancient Egypt, due in part to an effective reworking of egyptological knowledge into a classic moral tale. The fact that some egyptologists had already viewed the Amarna period within a Christian moral context would have been a source of inspiration to Waltari. Arthur Weigall, the British author and egyptologist, is a good, though hitherto unacknowledged example of this. In transforming his egyptological interests into a historical novel, Waltari found a ready model in Weigall's depiction of an Egyptian Phatraoh with a Christian morality.

Originalsprog	Dansk
Titel	Arven fra Ægypten : Genopdagelse - Mystik og videnskab
Redaktører	Erik Christiansen, Bo Dahl Hermansen
Antal sider	11
Vol/bind	2
Udgivelsessted	Århus
Forlag	Tidsskriftet Sfinx
Publikationsdato	2001
Sider	251-261
ISBN (Trykt)	8789632206
Status	Udgivet - 2001

Emneord

Det Humanistiske Fakultet
Ægyptisk historie
Ægyptisk kultur
Finsk litteratur
Ægyptomani
Mika Waltari
Amarnatiden
Arkæologisk kildemateriale

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