Diverging Accounts within the Kadesh Inscriptions of Ramesses II

Tür:

Kitap

Yazar:

Joshua A. Berman

Yayın yılı:

2017

Yayıncı:

Oxford University Press

Egyptologists have long noted that Ramesses II commissioned three conflicting versions of the battle of Kadesh to be inscribed together at various monumental sites. This chapter lays out the multiple inconsistencies witnessed between these accounts, and explores how Egyptologists have accounted for this. To our minds, when we encounter conflicting historical accounts, the trustworthiness of both accounts is brought into question. The chapter concludes by exploring the modern notion of historiography—largely a phenomenon that emerges only in the nineteenth century—and premodern notions of history-telling in the writings of the so-called historians of ancient Greece and Rome, and the medieval Church fathers. These premodern notions of historiography provide us with a discourse through which to understand how ancient Egyptians could have overcome the glaring contradictions between these multiple, juxtaposed versions of the same event.

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