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The Dispute between a man and his Ba or The Debate Between a Man and his Soul〔Allen, 2011, p.1〕 is an ancient Egyptian text dating to the Middle Kingdom about a man deeply unhappy with his life. It is part of the so-called Wisdom literature and takes the form of a dialogue between a man and his ''ba''. The beginning of the text is missing, there are a number of lacunae, and translation of the remainder is difficult. The only copy to survive, consisting of 155 columns of hieratic writing, is on the ''recto'' of Papyrus Berlin 3024.〔Lichthiem, 1973, p.163〕 ==Synopsis (following the translation of M. Lichtheim)== The man accuses his ''ba'' of wanting to desert him, of dragging him towards death before his time. He says that life is too heavy for him to bear, that his heart would come to rest in the West (i.e. the afterlife), his name would survive and his body would be protected. He urges his ''ba'' to be patient and wait for a son to be born to make the offerings the deceased needed in the afterlife. His ''ba'' describes the sadness death brings and retorts to the man's complaints about his lack of worth, his being cut off from humanity and the attractiveness of death by exhorting him to embrace life and promises to stay with him. There appears to be no hint in the text that the man is considering taking his own life,〔 although Pritchard's rendition〔Pritchard, 1950, pp.405-407〕 strongly suggests the opposite.
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