Subj : Back again
To   : RICHARD M. MEIC
From : Frank Masingill
Date : Fri Jul 13 2001 09:56 pm

 > ->     Read "Debate of a Man Contemplating Suicide with his Soul" of circa
 > -> 2,000-2,500 BCE

 > Okay, Frank...

 > You do realize that it will take a long time to track down the piece.  I
 > just finished a search on the net and found only 1 refference ("Eric
 > Voegelin Remembered") where you yourself made a number of comments.
 > By the time I find the reference itself and read it this topic will have
 > been long over and perhaps even both of us will have forgotten why it came
 > up in the first place.  So, if you would be so kind as to quote me the
 > pertinent passages I would be greatful.  :o)

    You can find it quite handily in the old and reliable Pritchard's _Near 
Eastern Texts_, Richard.  Should be in any library of any size even those not 
too well stocked.  You will find a number of such ancient Egyptian texts of 
that period, e.g., the "Song of the Harper" wherein the sentiments of atheism 
and resignation parallel modern ones.   I judge that is what is meant by the 
writer of Ecclesiastes when he opines that "there is nothing new under the 
sun."

Frank

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 * Origin: Frank's House (1:396/45.12)

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