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The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
With a generous, thorough selection, editors Rita Lucarelli and Martin Andreas Stadler offer in 'The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead' a wide-ranging synthesis of essential scholarship on Egyptian religious and mystical practices, centered on the central text of that tradition.
The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
"Among the broad spectrum of ancient Egyptian religious literature, the Book of the Dead is the most representative of the mortuary religion and of the magical and ritual practices belonging to it. Moreover, its rich corpus of texts and images provides unique information on the scribal practices, mortuary traditions, myths, and priestly rituals in ancient Egypt from the 2nd Millennium BCE to the Roman Period. "Book of the Dead" is the conventional name given by Egyptologists to a collection of magical compositions called in ancient Egyptian "Book for coming forth by day". This title refers to the main wish of the deceased, who wished to be able to leave his tomb and move freely between this ...
My Lots are in Thy Hands: Sortilege and its Practitioners in Late Antiquity
The fourteen essays in this work examine late antique lot divination in the Mediterranean world, employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history.
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt
Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an intricate cultural discourse involving themes that resonate today - east and west, old world and new, acculturation and shifting identities, patterns of language use and religious belief, and the management of agriculture and trade. Roman Egypt was a literal and figurative crossroads shaped by the movement of people, goods, and ideas, and framed by permeable boundaries of self and space. This handbook is unique in drawing together many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic, and interpretive research. Arranged in seven thematic sections, each of which includes essays from a variety of disciplinary vantage points and multiple sources of information, it offers new perspectives from both established and younger scholars, featuring individual essay topics, themes, and intellectual juxtapositions.
One Who Loves Knowledge
The thirty-nine articles in this volume, One Who Loves Knowledge, have been contributed by colleagues, students, friends, and family in honor of Richard Jasnow, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. Despite his claiming to be just a demoticist, Richard Jasnow's research interests and specialties are broad, spanning religious and historical topics, along with new editions of demotic texts, including most particularly the Book of Thoth. A number of the authors demonstrate their appreciation for Jasnow's contributions to the understanding of this difficult text. The volume also includes other studies on literature, Ptolemaic history, and even the god Thoth himself, and features detailed images and abundant hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, Coptic, and Greek texts.
Einführung in die ägyptische Religion ptolemäisch-römischer Zeit nach den demotischen religiösen Texten
Vieles der altägyptischen Religion ist aus Quellen bekannt, von denen nur Textzeugen aus der Zeit zwischen etwa 500 und 300 n. Chr. erhalten geblieben sind, darunter zahlreiche demotische Papyri. In den letzten Jahrzehnten wurde dieser Schatz zunehmend gehoben. Neben einem Überblick über dieses spannende Forschungsfeld führt der Band somit in wichtige Gebiete der altägyptischen Religion allgemein ein. Die demotischen Texte lassen sich nämlich nur durch ihren weiteren Kontext verstehen, der für Studierende der Ägyptologie, aber auch Kollegen und Kolleginnen der Nachbardisziplinen, wie Altorientalistik, Bibelwissenschaften und Klassische Altertumswissenschaften, aufbereitet wird.
Das Soknopaiosritual
Im Tempel des Soknopaios in Dimê wurde wie in jedem ägyptischen Tempel täglich ein Opferritual und ein Ritual durchgeführt, bei dem das Kultbild neu eingekleidet wurde. Die Priester begleiteten ihre Handlungen mit Rezitationen, die zusammenfassend das Tägliche Ritual heißen. Aus dem Soknopaios-Tempel ist dieses in einer Reihe von Handschriften des 1. und 2. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. überliefert. Jene Papyri, in denen zudem bislang unbekanntes Spruchgut belegt ist, werden in dem Band erstmals ediert. Die teils mehr als 1300 Jahre älteren Texte wurden unter Beibehaltung der mittelägyptischen Sprache in 'unetymologischer' demotischer Schrift notiert. Das geschah vielleicht, um zusätzliche ...
Jesus the Oracle
In Jesus the Oracle, Annelies Gisela Moeser reads Jesus’s journey from Capernaum to Jerusalem in Mark’s gospel through the cultural context of second/third century Roman Egypt. Moeser provides a rich description of the Egyptian practice of oracles, including processional oracles, to build a model with which to read Mark. This prism brings attention to descriptions of Jesus’s supernatural knowledge and wisdom, such as in the story of the Rich Man (Mk 10:17–22). In contrast to Clement of Alexandria’s homily on the Rich Man which counseled detachment from possessions, this reading from a non-elite perspective considers Jesus’s advice to be more radical. This model of processional oracles highlights the importance of access to the divine, including by non-elite crowds, by persons with disabilities (e.g., in comparing Bartimaeus [Mk 10:46–52] with Gemellus Horion of Karanis [a town in Egypt]), and by children. Traditional Egyptian religion upheld the existing sociopolitical regime. However, Jesus’s procession and proclamation of the basileia (reign) of G*d subverts the Roman world order and that of their local, elite allies.
Beyond the Nile
From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one another’s work, creating cultural and artistic hybrids that transcended a single tradition. Yet in spite of the remarkable artistic production that resulted from these interchanges, the complex vicissitudes of exchange between Egypt and the Classical world over the course of nearly 2500 years have not been comprehensively explored in a major exhibition or publication in the United States. It is precisely this aspect of Egypt’s history, however...
In the House of Heqanakht
In the House of Heqanakht: Text and Context in Ancient Egypt gathers Egyptological articles in honor of James P. Allen, Charles Edwin Wilbour Professor of Egyptology at Brown University.
