User:Thanatosimii

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Well, I said I'd be back, however I'm currently having too much fun with God to be here on any kind of regular basis. Wikipedia is indeed a fine project, and I'm glad I spent some time here, and I don't expect to be going for good, but I expect a drastically reduced presence.

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Well, time for a new introduction.

I came to wikipedia about a year ago to write about Northern Minnesota, otherwise known to natives of this most glorious state as "paradise on earth" (unfortunately inhabited by our state bird). However, last summer, I realized that the ancient Egypt stuff here was pretty sparse, so I began going after the 18th Dynasty to sparse it up, and as of the day I'm writing this, we now have our first featured article being displayed on the main page.

I am a college student studying Ancient and Classical Languages and History. I started with the Classical Language and the Ancient History, and now I'm into the Classical history and the Ancient Language. My training thus far has led me to some strong opinions about how things should be, but since several of them are contrary to the established majority position, I have had to develop the ability to write from another entierly different perspective than my own, which, I believe, is an extremely good skill to aquire.

So far the 18th dynasty pages seem pretty free of the nonsense that so often infests wikipedia, and hopefully someday those articles can be a bulwark, showing how history ought to be written.

My first duty is to the articles and their readers. If I feel it absolutely necesarry in order to improve or protect an article, I reserve the right to responsibly invoke Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules if the mandated behavior is deleterious to the health of the specific material in danger. Those with alternate opinions therefore ought to take at least minimal effort to actually argue why the guideline or policy ought to be specifically applied to the specific case, and exactly how that will improve the specific related articles.

Contents 1 My Contributions 2 My Barnstars 3 Personal Ancient Egypt Library 4 Translations

[edit] My Contributions

Edited up to FA

• Ahmose I, My pride and joy. Edited to FA with assistance of my tireless ally, Captmondo, and our wonderful copyeditor, Editor at Large.

Edited up to GA

• Amenhotep I
• Thutmose I

Major contributions to:

• North Shore (Lake Superior)
• Thutmose II
• Thutmose III, My current project.
• Amenhotep II
• Thutmose IV, my actual current project since A New Biography got lost in inter-library transit. Good Grief!
• Tura (Egypt)
• Predynastic Egypt
• Ancient Egyptian offering formula

Minor Contributions to:

• Ahmose-Nefertari
• Seventh and eighth dynasties of Egypt
• Fifteenth dynasty of Egypt
• Apepi I
• Apepi II
• Khamudi

Created:

• Urkunden des Alten Reichs
• Urkunden der 18. Dynastie
• Urkunden des Ægyptischen Altertums
• Apepi II
• Djahy

Stubs Started:

• Kurt Heinrich Sethe
• Ian Shaw

My works in progress

• Capitals of Egypt

[edit] My Barnstars

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar For your amazing work on the article Ahmose I, which passed both GA and FA without a single oppose, I award you the Tireless Contributor barstar. Wear it with pride, for you most certainly deserved it! — Editor at Large(speak) 14:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Personal Ancient Egypt Library

Well, I was the one who suggested it, so I suppose I should acutally do it. Avalable to me on my bookshelf, I have:

• Erman, Adolph. Life in Ancient Egypt.
  
• Gardiner, Alan. Egypt of the Pharaohs.
  
• Grimal, Nicolas. A History of Ancient Egypt.
  
• Redford, Donald B. Egypt, Israel, and Canaan in Ancient Times.
  
• Reeves, Nicholas. Akhenaten, Egypt's False Prophet.
  
• Shaw, Ian. Exploring Ancient Egypt.
  
• Shaw, Ian and Nicholson, Paul. The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt.
  
• Steindorff, George and Seele, Keith C. When Egypt Ruled the East.
  

[edit] Translations

My greek exegetical bones to pick:

1. Houtos in Jn. 3:16 clearly is and has always been an adjective of manner, not magnitude. "so" with any other verb means "in this way" ("so let it be written, so let it be done").
2. Anedia autou in Lk 11 means "shamefulness of [the deed]"

Books I've translated

1. Romans 1-11
2. I John
3. II John
4. III John
5. Jude