The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead
 
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ISBN13:9780190210007
ISBN10:0190210001
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:616 pages
Size:181x249x36 mm
Weight:1216 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 200 figures, 5 tables
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The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead

 
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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.

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Among the broad spectrum of ancient Egyptian religious literature, the Book of the Dead is the most representative of ancient Egyptian 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. The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead is the first major guide to collect and synthesize the wide-ranging body of scholarship on the Book of the Dead as well as the broader literature on ancient Egyptian religion and magic.

Useful for both curious undergraduates and advanced scholars, this collection of contributions from specialists in the field will become a go-to resource for years to come on everything from the textual history of the Book of the Dead to its material origins and historical reception. Editors Rita Lucarelli and Martin Andreas Stadler have curated a singular volume that is both state of the art and comprehensive.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I The Textual History of the Book of the Dead
1. From the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts to the Book of the Dead
Louise Gestermann
2. The Book of the Dead in the 18th Dynasty
Irmtraut Munro
3. The Ramesside Book of the Dead and the Deir el-Medina tradition
Barbara Lüscher
4. The Book of the Dead in the Third Intermediate Period
Giuseppina Lenzo
5. The Book of the Dead in the 25th/26th Dynasty
Svenja Gülden
6. The Last Books of the Dead
Florence Albert
II Types of Sources: the Material Aspect of the Book of the Dead
7. Scribes and writing traditions
Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen
8. Production and layout of the Book of the Dead papyri
Ogend Goelet
9. The Female owners of the Book of the Dead
Susanne Töpfer
10. The Book of the Dead on tissue and mummy bandages
Annie Gasse
11. The Book of the Dead in tombs
Silvia Einaudi
12. The Book of the Dead in temples
Holger Kockelmann
III The Book of the Dead's Position in Ancient Egyptian Religion
13. The Book of the Dead as a source for the study of ancient Egyptian religion: methodology, problems, prospects
Martin Andreas Stadler
14. The Funerary Literature Related to the Book of the Dead
Foy Scalf
15. The Book of the Dead in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods and the contemporary funerary texts
Andrea Kucharek
16. The Book of the Ba
Andrea Kucharek
IV Particular Aspects of the Book of the Dead's Contents
17. Thematic groups and sequences of spells
Felicitas Weber
18. Spell 1 of the Book of the Dead and its Vignette
Tarek Tawfik
19. The Field of Offering/Field of Reeds
Milagros Álvarez Sosa
20. The Judgement over The Final Judgement
Jirí Janák
21. The so-called "Chapitres supplémentaires"
Annik Wüthrich
22. Vignettes
Malcolm Mosher
V The Book of the Dead in Modern Times
23. The time of the pioneers
Barbara Lüscher
24. Modern Reception
Aris Legowski
25. Translating the Book of the Dead
Burkhard Backes
26. Conservation and Restoration of a Book of the Dead Roll
Myriam Krutzsch
27. Choat, Forgeries of the Book of the Dead
Rita Lucarelli