If you are looking for the beginning of study guide for Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green then you should start HERE with the brief introduction. The links to each set of study questions will be posted at the bottom of that original post as they are completed so you can easily find whichever section you are looking for.
Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)
What is Sekhti’s status in society when the story starts? (pg. 164)
Why did Hemti hold the peasants “in contempt”? (pg. 164)
How does Hemti entrap Sekhti and take hold of his possessions? (pg. 165-166)
To whom does Sekhti appeal for justice in his case? (pg. 167)
What about Sekhti impresses Meruitensa and Pharaoh? (pg. 169)
How many days did Sekhti plead his case before Meruitensa? (pg. 170)
What is Sekhti’s status in society at the end of the story? (pg. 171)
Logic Questions: (The Interpretation/Comparison of the Text)
Why might the text emphasize that Sekhti was taking a path “which was a public thoroughfare open to all men”? (pg. 165)
What might we conclude about Meruitensa from the fact that he provides Sekhti with food and shelter (pg. 168)
Rhetoric is the art and science of persuasion through the written or spoken word. How does Sekhti use Rhetoric in this story? (pg. 168, 170)
Why would Meruitensa and Pharaoh provide for Sekhti and his family’s needs, and then also have him lightly beaten? (pg. 169-170)
What seems to be the central great idea in this story? How did you come to that conclusion?
Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)
Is Rhetoric a good or bad thing? How ought it to be used if it is used at all?
What makes some speech pleasing and other speech displeasing?
What is the purpose of law in a just society?
Was justice properly served by the end of this story?
Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)
Meruitensa tells the other lords about Sekhti’s case and they reply, “We know that Hemti is grasping… but why should we punish him for taking a handful of natron and a pinch of salt from a mere peasant?” Read 2 Samuel 12:1-15. How does this passage of Scripture sit in judgment over the words of the lords of Egypt?
Read Micah 6:6-8 and the teaching of John the Baptist in John 3:10-14. What do we learn about God’s concern for justice? How might we define justice in light of these texts?
Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)
Hospitality, Justice