Looking beyond the Text : New Approaches to Scribal Culture and Practices in Ancient Egypt /

Looking beyond the Text : New Approaches to Scribal Culture and Practices in Ancient Egypt /

Looking beyond the Text investigates the production, transmission, and reception of texts and manuscripts in ancient Egypt, focusing on the complex practices and culture of the scribes who made them. Drawing on theories and methods from other disciplines such as literary studies, neuroscience, and b...

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Other Authors: Geoga, Margaret (Editor), Motte, Aurore (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Harvard Egyptological Studies ; 27.

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Ancient Near East and Egypt.
Egyptology.

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Call Number: BS709.4

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Charts
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Notes on Editors
  • Introduction
  •   Margaret Geoga, Aurore Motte and Judith Jurjens
  • Part1 Social Contexts
  • 1 Investigating Scribal Practice and the Instruction of a Man to His Son at Tell Edfu ( TEO 131)
  •   KathrynE. Bandy
  • 2 A Bookish Burial: Kings, Scribes, and the Amduat Catalog
  •   Jordan Miller
  • 3 Identifying Scribes: Piay in the Colophon of P.Chester Beatty II
  •   Judith Jurjens
  • Part2 Education and Formation
  • 4 Testing the Limits of the Sign: Writing Strategies for Advanced Scribes from the Educational Board BM EA 194
  •   Amr ElHawary
  • 5 A Rare Coptic Legal Exercise: O . TT 157 Inv.478/1
  •   Rowida AboBakrMohamedFawzy
  • Part3 Writing Mechanics
  • 6 Scribal Practice in Heqanakht Letters: Analyzing the Epistolary Formula beyond the Script
  •   Ahmed Osman
  • 7 Variability of Scribal Practices in the Copy of Retrograde Texts during the 21st Dynasty (1069-945  BCE )
  •   Émil Joubert
  • 8 The Life and Scribes of a Late Period Medical Papyrus: Tracing the Composition, Use and Deterioration of Papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.75+.86
  •   Juliane Unger
  • Part4 Scribal Materials
  • 9 The Effect of the Reed Pen on Demotic Paleography in a Late-Ptolemaic Archive from Tebtunis
  •   Leah Packard-Grams
  • 10 Permanence of Intellectual Creation through the Materiality of Stone: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Egyptian Book Culture
  •   Chana Algarvio
  • Part5 Transmission and Reception
  • 11 Evidence of Diglossia and Bilingualism in Old Egyptian Mortuary Literature of the Middle Kingdom
  •   RobertoAntonio DíazHernández
  • 12 The Textual History of the Demotic "Prebend of Amun"
  •   JacquelineE. Jay
  • 13 Infographics in Museums: The Use of Graphic Visual Representations in the Mediation of Textual Content on Papyri
  •   Susanne Töpfer
  • Index.