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>>15166804
Here's a free PDF of J.P. Allen's translations and commentary.
I know it sounds like a cop out but I'd very much recommend you start with a book on broader Egyptian society to get a foundational context for what you read. I'd suggest T. Wilkinson et al's The Egyptian World, or B. Kemp and B. Trigger's Ancient Egypt: A Social History (Even if Trigger's prose is rather dry) for more focus in relation to the historical record.
My essays by Allen and H.Hays above are more academic analysis's of the texts themselves, and can be found here:
Allen:
>https://www.pyramidtextsonline.com/documents/ALLEN,ReadingaPyramid.pdf
And Hays' critique
>https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/16157/Hays+2009d+Unreading+Pyramids.pdf?sequence=2