Papyrus British Museum 10808 And Its Cultural And Religious Setting

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Papyrus British Museum 10808 And Its Cultural And Religious Setting

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Author : Val Sederholm
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2006-04-23

Papyrus British Museum 10808 And Its Cultural And Religious Setting written by Val Sederholm and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-23 with History categories.

This new reading of a unique Egyptian spell illuminates Egypt’s Graeco-Roman Period. The author considers such linguistic features as taboo, the efficacy of magical words and names, and the role of stars and fate in the slaughter of divine enemies as portrayed in the text.

Guide To The Study Of Ancient Magic

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Author : David Frankfurter
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-03-19

Guide To The Study Of Ancient Magic written by David Frankfurter and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-19 with History categories.

This volume seeks to advance the study of ancient magic through separate discussions of ancient terms for ambiguous or illicit ritual, the ancient texts commonly designated magical, and contexts in which the term magic may be used descriptively.

The Oxford Handbook Of Roman Egypt

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Author : Christina Riggs
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-21

The Oxford Handbook Of Roman Egypt written by Christina Riggs and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-21 with History categories.

This handbook, arranged in seven thematic sections, 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.

Continuity And Innovation In The Magical Tradition

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Author : Gideon Bohak
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-06-22

Continuity And Innovation In The Magical Tradition written by Gideon Bohak and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-22 with Religion categories.

This volume brings together thirteen studies by as many experts in the study of one or more ancient or medieval magical traditions, from ancient Mesopotamia and Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt to the Greek world, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It lays special emphasis on the recurrence of similar phenomena in magical texts as far apart as the Akkadian cuneiform tablets and an Arabic manuscript bought in Egypt in the late-twentieth century. Such similarities demonstrate to what extent many different cultures share a “magical logic” which is strikingly identical, and in particular they show the recurrence of certain phenomena when magical practices are transmitted in written form and often preserve, adopt and adapt much older textual units.

Code Switching With The Gods

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Author : Edward O. D. Love
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2016-10-24

Code Switching With The Gods written by Edward O. D. Love and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-24 with History categories.

This volume provides the first comprehensive text edition of the Egyptian language sections of P. Bibliothèque Nationale Supplément Grec. 574 (PGM IV) and analysis of their script, language, and the bilingual spells which they are part of. The magical practices preserved in the PDM and PGM have been published for nearly a century, yet it is only recently that research has focused on investigating the complex relationship between the languages, scripts, and religious traditions they exhibit, as well as the question of who composed, copied, and practiced these spells. Focusing on the bilingual divinations, lust spell, and exorcism of PGM IV, written in the Egyptian and Greek languages - and rendered in Old Coptic scripts and the Greek script respectively - this volume analyses their textual content and ritual mechanics, contextualised among the PDM and PGM, and investigates the potential identities of the magical practitioners of late Roman and Late Antique Egypt. Encompassing the disciplines of Egyptology, Coptology, Papyrology, and Late Antique studies, this volume focuses in particular on the themes of magical practice, bilingualism, script, and the social context of magic in Egypt during the 2nd to 4th centuries CE.

Papyrus British Museum 10808 And Its Cultural And

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Author : Val Hinckley Sederholm
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Papyrus British Museum 10808 And Its Cultural And written by Val Hinckley Sederholm and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.

Annotation. This volume presents a new reading of an extraordinary Proto-Coptic magical text. Papyrus British Museum EA 10808 features a unique spell for a victim of divine wrath composed in the liturgical language of ancient Egypt but in Greek script with a few Demotic signs. Sederholm reveals a coherent and distinctive text that contributes to the illumination of Egyptian thought in the Graeco-Roman Period just before the great shutdown of the ancient temple learning. In nine chapters of transcription, translation, and commentary, Sederholm considers such features as taboo, secrecy, and the efficacy of magical words and names. He also discusses the destructive nature of the stars and the role of Fate in the bloody slaughter of divine enemies within the text.

Problems Of Canonicity And Identity Formation In Ancient Egypt And Mesopotamia

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Author : Gojko Barjamovic
language : en
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2016-04-24

Problems Of Canonicity And Identity Formation In Ancient Egypt And Mesopotamia written by Gojko Barjamovic and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-24 with Literary Criticism categories.

The term ‘canonicity’ implies the recognition that the domain of literature and of the library is also a cultural and political one, related to various forms of identity formation, maintenance, and change. Scribes and benefactors ‘create’ canon in as much as they teach, analyze, preserve, prom¬ulgate and change ‘canonical’ texts according to prevailing norms. From early on, texts from the written traditions of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt were accumulated, codified, and to some extent canonized, as various collections developed mainly in the environment of the temple and the palace. These written traditions represent sets of formal and informal cultures that all speak in their own ways of canonicity, normativity, and other forms of cultural expertise. Some forms of literature were used not only in scholarly contexts, but also in political ones, and they served purposes of identity formation. This volume addresses the interrelations between various forms of ‘canon’ and identity formation in different time periods, genres, regions, and contexts, as well as the application of contemporary conceptions of ‘canon’ to ancient texts.

The Idea Of Writing

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Author : Alex de Voogt
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-12-09

The Idea Of Writing written by Alex de Voogt and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This exploration of the versatility of writing systems highlights their complexity when used for more than one language. The approaches of authors from different academic traditions provide a varied and expert account.

The Multilingual Experience In Egypt From The Ptolemies To The Abbasids

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Author : Arietta Papaconstantinou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-14

The Multilingual Experience In Egypt From The Ptolemies To The Abbasids written by Arietta Papaconstantinou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-14 with History categories.

For over a millennium and a half, Egypt was home to at least two commonly used languages of communication. Although this situation is by no means exceptional in the ancient and medieval worlds, the wealth of documentary sources preserved by Egypt's papyri makes the country a privileged observation ground for the study of ancient multilingualism. One of the greatest contributions of papyri to this subject is that they capture more linguistic registers than other ancient and medieval sources, since they range from very private documents not meant by their author to be read by future generations, to official documents produced by the administration, which are preserved in their original form. This collection of essays aims to make this wealth better known, as well as to give a diachronic view of multilingual practices in Egypt from the arrival of the Greeks as a political force in the country with Alexander the Great, to the beginnings of Abbasid rule when Greek, and slowly also Coptic, receded from the documentary record. The first section of the book gives an overview of the documentary sources for this subject, which for ancient history standards are very rich and as yet under-exploited. The second part contains several case studies from different periods that deal with language use in contexts of varying breadth and scope, from its the ritual use in magic or the liturgy to private letters and state administration.

Script Switching In Roman Egypt

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Author : Edward O. D. Love
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-12-06

Script Switching In Roman Egypt written by Edward O. D. Love and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-06 with History categories.

Script Switching in Roman Egypt studies the hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Old Coptic manuscripts which evidence the conventions governing script use, the domains of writing those scripts inhabited, and the shift of scripts between those domains, to elucidate the obsolescence of those scripts from their domains during the Roman Period. Utilising macro-level frameworks from sociolinguistics, the textual culture from four sites is contextualised within the priestly communities of speech, script, and practice that produced them. Utilising micro-level frameworks from linguistics, both the scripts of the Egyptian writing system written, and the way the orthographic methods fundamental to those scripts changed, are typologised. This study also treats the way in which morphographic and alphabetic orthographies are deciphered and understood by the reading brain, and how changes in spelling over time both resulted from and responded to dimensions of orthographic depth. Through a cross-cultural consideration of script obsolescence in Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia and by analogy to language death in speech communities, a model of domain-bydomain shift and obsolescence of the scripts of the Egyptian writing system is proposed.