Story of Sinuhe

Importance.

The Story of Sinuhe survives in many manuscripts, suggesting that the Egyptians considered it among their most important literary works. The oldest manuscripts date to the Twelfth Dynasty (1938–1759 b.c.e.), also the time of the story's setting. There are also more than twenty New Kingdom (1539–1075 b.c.e.) copies and even a Late Period copy (664–332 b.c.e.). This large number of copies surviving in all major periods is due to the fact that scribe schools required scribes to copy this text as part of scribal training. Yet, the fact that so many scribes worked on copying Sinuhe suggests that it was also studied in all time periods. It is thus a work of literature that connected the Egyptian literate class for 2,000 years. The text also includes variations on many literary genres. Overall, it is structured to resemble an autobiography and is narrated in the first person. Unlike a tomb autobiography, however, Sinuhe's life goes astray rather than meeting the ideal as in the standard biography. It also includes songs, monologues, and even a …

Cop review board's silence is jeopardizing its credibiity

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Despite a mad scramble and weeks of publicity regarding replacing the Office of Professional Standards with the Internal Police Review Authority and bringing in an executive director from Los Angeles, one can't help but wonder if anything has changed when it comes to police shooting civilians in the city.

Earlier this week a 16-year-old Phillips High School student was stopped at the school and allegedly found to have a gun. After he ran from the school, the youngster was shot by an off-duty cop.

The story gets murkier from here - particularly because ifs the job of Bayna Rosenzweig, chief administrator of the D?RA, to apprise citizens and the media of the …

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Bears lining up six-wide Shepherd or Gage? Final receiver spot up for grabs tonight

The Bears' game plan is to feed running backs Anthony Thomas andAdrian Peterson carries in the first half of their exhibition finaletonight. Then they have a decision to make.

Which wide receivers will have a job at the bottom of the roster?

The answer, to be supplied before Sunday's cutdown to the 53-manroster, will come by the end of tonight's game against the NewEngland Patriots in Foxboro, Mass. (7, Ch. 5, 780-AM). In the runningfor what appears to be a sixth receiver spot are NFL Europe veteranEdell Shepherd and fifth-round draft pick Justin Gage.

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Tricky weather?

Behr's new climate tunnel helps the supplier increase its testing capacity.

There's a monsoon in Stuttgart Thousands of miles away in Troy, Mich., the temperature will change from artic cold to desert hot in only a few hours.

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Cards pull within 1 game of Braves in NL wild card

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Cardinals headed to Houston wearing Hawaiian shirts and already dressed for a party.

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