E. A. Wallis Budge (1857–1934)
Author of Book of the Dead
About the Author
E.A. Wallis Budge, 1857 - 1934 Budge was the Curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. He was also a Sometime Scholar of Christ's College, a scholar at the University of Cambridge, Tyrwhitt, and a Hebrew Scholar. He collected a large number of Coptic, show more Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Ethiopian, and Egyptian Papyri manuscripts. He was involved in numerous archaeology digs in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan. Budge is known for translating the Egyptian Book of the Dead, which is also known as The Papyrus of Ani. He also analyzed many of the practices of Egyptian religion, language and ritual. His written works consisted of translated texts and hieroglyphs and a complete dictionary of hieroglyphs. Budge's published works covered areas of Egyptian culture ranging from Egyptian religion, Egyptian mythology and magical practices. He was knighted in 1920. E.A. Wallis Budge died on November 23, 1934 in London, England. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by E. A. Wallis Budge
An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary : With an Index of English Words, King List, and Geographical List with Indexes,… (1978) 184 copies
An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Vol. 2: With an Index of English Words, King List, and Geographical List with… (1978) 156 copies
An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary : With an Index of English Words, King List, and Geographical List with Indexes,… (1920) 152 copies
The Kebra Negast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith from Ethiopia and Jamaica (1997) 151 copies
The sayings and stories of the Christian fathers of Egypt : the Syriac version of the Apophthegma Patrum (2002) 18 copies
Baralãam and Yæewãasef, being the Ethiopic version of a Christianized recension of the Buddhist legend of the Buddha… (1976) 14 copies
The paradise or garden of the holy fathers: Being histories of the anchorites, recluses, monks, Coenobites, and ascetic… (1907) — some editions — 13 copies
The Egyptian Heaven and Hell: Volume 2. The Short Form of the Book Am-Tuat and The Book of Gates (1999) 12 copies
The bandlet of righteousness, an Ethiopian book of the dead : the Ethiopic text of the [Lefåafa òsedeq] : in… (1982) 12 copies
The Alexander book in Ethiopia : the Ethiopic versions of Pseudo-Callisthenes, the chronicle of Al-Makãin, the… (1976) 11 copies
Amulets and magic : the original texts with translations and descriptions of a long series of Egyptian, Sumerian,… (2001) 10 copies
A history of Egypt : from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra VII, B.C. 30 9 copies
The history of the Blessed Virgin Mary and The history of the likeness of Christ. Volume 1 (2009) 8 copies
A history of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra VII B.C. 30. Vol. VII, Egypt under… (1902) 7 copies
The histories of Rabban Hãormãizd the Persian and Rabban Bar-āIdtãa : the Syriac texts edited with English… (1976) 6 copies
A guide to the first and second Egyptian rooms. Predynastic antiquities, mummies, mummy-cases, and other objects… (1898) 6 copies
The book of the opening of the mouth. Volume II, The Egyptian texts with English translations (1909) 5 copies
The contendings of the apostles (Mashafa gadla hawãaryãat) : being the Ethiopic version of the histories of the… (1976) 5 copies
Legends of Our Lady Mary the Perpetual Virgin and Her Mother Hannâ (Classic Reprint) (2012) 4 copies
The Book of the Bee 4 copies
Assyrian texts being extracts from the annals of Shalmaneser II., Sennacherib, and Assur-Bani-Pal : with philological… (1880) 4 copies
The history of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and, The history of the likeness of Christ. Vol. 2 (2009) 4 copies
The Book of opening the mouth. the Egyptian texts with English translations / Volume 1 (1909) 4 copies
the Mummy trade 3 copies
A history of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra VII B.C. 30. Vol. I, Egypt in the… (2013) 3 copies
The Book of Paradise, being the histories and sayings of the monks and ascetics of the Egyptian desert (2010) 3 copies
A history of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra VII B.C. 30 Vol. V, Egypt under… (2012) 3 copies
Alexander the Great : an account of his life and exploits from Ethiopic sources and other writing (2008) 3 copies
A Catalogue of the Egyptian Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambridge Library Collection - Cambridge) (2004) 3 copies
A history of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra VII, B.C. 30. Vol. III, Egypt under… (1999) 3 copies
A history of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra VII, B.C. 30. Vol. IV, Egypt and her… (2013) 3 copies
A history of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra VII B.C. 30. Vol VI, Egypt under the… (2013) 2 copies
A history of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra VII, B.C. 30. Vol. VIII, Egypt under… (2013) 2 copies
A history of Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period to the death of Cleopatra VII B.C. 30. Vol. II, Egypt under the… (2013) 2 copies
The sarcophagus of Ānchnesrāneferȧb, Queen of Ȧḥmes II, King of Egypt about B.C. 564-526 (2016) 2 copies
The Sarcophagus of Anchnesraneferab 2 copies
The Discovery of Babylonian Story of the Deluge and the Epic of Gilgamesh (Forgotten Books) (2007) 2 copies
Annals of the kings of Assyria the cuneiform texts with translations and transliterations from the original documents (2007) 2 copies
The book of the kings of Egypt : or the Ka, Nebti, Horus, Suten Bȧt, and Rā names of the Pharaohs ; with… (2005) 2 copies
George of Lydda, the Patron Saint of England (Luzac's Semitic Texts and Translations : No 20) (1978) 2 copies
By Nile and Tigris: a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years… (2010) 2 copies
The Literature of Ancient Egypt: Including Original Sources: The Book of the Dead, Papyrus of Ani, Hymn to the Nile,… (2019) 2 copies
Amulets and superstitions 2 copies
Books On Egypt & Chaldea 1 copy
Il libro dei misteri dei cieli e della terra (e altre opere di Bakhayla Mika'el, Zosimas) (2004) 1 copy
Franks bequest; The treasure of the Oxus, with other objects from ancient Persia and India, bequeathed to the Trustees… (2012) 1 copy
A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 copy
Some Account of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of Lady Meux, of Theobald's Park, Waltham… (2016) 1 copy
Books on Egypt Anb Gbalbaea a History of Egypt From the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of Cleopatra VII, Vol.… (2015) 1 copy
The Book of the Dead By Chapters of Coming Forth By Day, the Egyptian Text According to Ti-Ie Theban, Recension in… (2012) 1 copy
Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum Graeco-Roman Sculptures, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) (2012) 1 copy
Jeroglíficos Egipcios 1 copy
An Egyptian reading book 1 copy
On the Hieratic Papyrus of Nesi-Amsu, as scribe in the Temple of Amen-Ra at Thebes, about B.C. 305 1 copy
The Contendings of the Apostles, Vol. 1: Being the Histories of the Lives and Martyrdoms and Deaths of the Twelve… (2017) 1 copy
The Papyrus of Ani, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint): A Reproduction in Facsimile Edited, With Hieroglyphic Transcript,… (2016) 1 copy
The History of Alexander the Great: Being the Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Callisthenes (2013) 1 copy
Egypt and her Asiatic empire 1 copy
Facsimiles of Egyptian hieratic papyri in the British museum, with descriptions, translations, etc 1 copy
By Nile and Tigris, a Narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on Behalf of the British Museum Between the Years… (2012) 1 copy
Египетский Сборник 1 copy
Associated Works
The Chronography of Gregory Abû'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew Physician, Commonly Known as Bar Hebraeus :… (1976) — Translator, some editions — 9 copies
The History of Alexander the Great, being the Syriac version of the Pseudo-Callisthenes. Edited ... with an English… (2003) — Translator, some editions — 2 copies
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- Legal name
- Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis
- Other names
- Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis
Budge, E.A. Wallis
Budge, Wallis - Birthdate
- 1857-07-27
- Date of death
- 1934-11-23
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Bodmin, Cornwall, England, UK
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Occupations
- Egyptologist
archaeologist
Coptologist
philologist - Organizations
- British Museum
Savile Club - Awards and honors
- Knight Bachelor
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead by E.A. Wallis Budge
An abridged and illustrated edition of Budge's classic translation, now considered a bit out of date. The plates are very nicely done, if some are a bit small, and most of the footnotes from the original edition have been cut for clarity. Nicely done, but could've used some more or the original material and made some of the detail pictures a little larger and placed closer to the translated text.
½
A book written in the 1920s and gives a good brief description of some keys myths as they had been discovered and translated at the time. There are many more recent books giving a better view of these myths based on the research since then. That said, if you want a quick read to get a feel for how these myths were written it’s worth a read.
This book was fantastically told and detailed. I enjoyed reading it, and it was a short read once I sat down and actually read it (oops . . .). I feel like the title was the most misleading aspect of the book: Tutankhamen’s name is included in it. And while he is discussed in the book, he was not the central focus of the book - Amenism and Atenism took central stage. I honestly think that Budge used Tutankhamen’s name in the title to boost his book, which I think worked. Other than that, and given the time in which this book was written, this book is good for what it is. Times and knowledge have changed and been added upon, but given that this book was originally published in 1923, it does its job.… (more)
Okay, this was an amazing read. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, an it made everything so much clearer about how the Ancient Egyptians viewed death and the afterlife. I highly recommend this as a read.
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