BA (Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies) – University of South Africa
BA Honours (Ancient Near Eastern Studies) - University of South Africa
MA (Ancient Near Eastern Studies) - University of South Africa
My research focuses on synthesising philosophy, literature, ethics, art, religion and psychology in the Near Eastern tradition. Focusing on synthesis involves the analysis of Egyptian religion, Egyptian literature, Middle Egyptian hieroglyphic, ancient systems of knowledge, the mythos of the Bible and ancient Near Eastern myth and folklore. All of which thematically organise the Near East as the background and basis of the modern mind. My intellectual goal is to organise, unify and simplify specialist disciplines through unaided reason. I aim to gesture at a composite picture of our knowledge, which, although limited by human inadequacies, unites us.
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Middle Egyptian, Hieroglyphic
Richards, LB. 2023. “The Nature and Meaning of the Rape Hoax in the New Kingdom Egyptian Composition The Two Brothers (ca.1550-1080BCE)”. In Interpreting Sacred Texts within Changing Contexts in Africa. Edited by A Some, MK Mensah and G Nsiah. Abidjan and Roma:Presses de l’ITCJ and Gregorian & Biblical Press, pages 85-100.
Richards, LB. 2020.“The Ancient Egyptian Conception of God: from the Predynastic through the Old Kingdom (ca.3800-2135BCE).” Journal of Semitics 29(2):16 pages.
Member of the Egypt Exploration Society (founded in 1882)
Reviewer for the Journal of Theology for Southern Africa and International Journal of Literature and Arts.
Contributor to Interpreting Sacred Texts within Changing Contexts in Africa at University of Ghana.
Community engagement project, Matric Q&A 2022 Edition 5: Geography and History in Sunday Times, Sowetan, Herald and Daily Dispatch.
