• Sebayt (Egyptian sbꜣyt, Coptic ⲥⲃⲱ "instruction, teaching") is the ancient Egyptian term for a genre of pharaonic literature. sbꜣyt literally means "teachings"...
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  • Jermaine Dupri Instruction, teaching or education performed by a teacher Sebayt, a work of the ancient Egyptian didactic literature aiming to teach ethical...
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  • Egyptian language, probably of Middle Kingdom date (2025–1700 BC). In this sebayt the author has a First Intermediate Period king of Egypt possibly named...
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    sweet". In ancient Egyptian literature, wisdom literature belonged to the sebayt ("teaching") genre which flourished during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and...
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  • century publisher of educational magazines and books Children's literature Sebayt Wisdom literature What’s Wrong with Didacticism? Archived 2019-06-18 at...
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    Ptahhotep are considered didactic wisdom literature belonging to the genre of sebayt. There are four copies of the Instructions, and the only complete version...
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    compilation of moral maxims and admonitions on the practice of virtue (sebayt). The conclusion of the Instructions of Kagemni is followed by the only...
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    tomb autobiography, such as those of Harkhuf and Weni. The genre known as Sebayt ('instructions') was developed to communicate teachings and guidance from...
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    to the Middle Kingdom. The text is considered to fall into the genre of Sebayt, a form of Egyptian wisdom literature. The text takes the form of a dialogue...
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    Maat. Later scholars and philosophers also would embody concepts from the Sebayt, a native wisdom literature. These spiritual texts dealt with common social...
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    Ammenemes I to His Son Sesostris") is a short ancient Egyptian poem of the sebayt genre written during the early Middle Kingdom. The poem takes the form of...
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  • ancient Egyptian instructional text of wisdom literature which belongs to the sebayt ('teaching') genre. Although the earliest evidence of its compilation dates...
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    contains one of the oldest extant writings about Egyptian wisdom teachings (Sebayt). The manuscript is dated to around the 1st century BC according to the...
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  • African philosophy Book of Thoth Egyptology Isfet (Egyptian mythology) Maat Maxims of Ptahhotep Middle Eastern philosophy Philosophy in Coptic Sebayt...
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    tomb autobiography, such as those of Harkhufand Weni. The genre known as Sebayt (Instructions) was developed to communicate teachings and guidance from...
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    Proverbs. Amenemope belongs to the literary genre of "instruction" (Egyptian sebayt). It is the culmination of centuries of development going back to the Instruction...
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    literature named as such by the ancient Egyptians was the "teaching" or sebayt genre. Parkinson states that the titles of a work, its opening statement...
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  • many letters sent to his viziers) was a pioneer in the epistolary genre. Sebayt and Wisdom literature — The Maxims of Ptahhotep are among the oldest pieces...
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    scholars tend to identify Merikare's predecessor with Wahkare Khety. These sebayt ("teachings", in ancient Egyptian) – possibly composed during the reign...
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    and the Nubians. Amenemhat I's name is associated with one of only two sebayt or ethical "teachings" attributed to Egyptian monarchs, entitled the Instructions...
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    Teaching, or The Loyalist Instructions, is an ancient Egyptian text of the sebayt ('teaching') genre. It survives in part from a stela inscription of the...
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  • of the Harvest Season of the Inundation Sebakh Sebat (king's daughter) Sebayt Sebek-khu Stele Sebiumeker Sebkay Second Dynasty of Egypt Second Intermediate...
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