SOURCE: "Pharaoh Triumphant: The Royal Myths of Ancient Egypt," in Ancient Economy in Mythology: East and West, edited by Morris Silver, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1991, pp. 163-86.
In the following essay, originally published in 1989, Schulman recounts the central theme of the divine king in Egyptian mythology and contends that scholars need to be more critical in their study of the information contained in ancient documents in order to ground historical speculation on more objective foundations.
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