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Magic, dreams, and prophecy played important roles in ancient Egypt, as recent scholarship has increasingly made clear. In this volume, eminent international Egyptologists come together to explore such divination across a wide period.
Contents
The Social Context of Magic in the 3rd Millennium & Middle Kingdom (John Baines) The End is Near (Leonard Lesko) Corn Mummies: "Amulets of Life" (Maria Costanza Centrone) The Spitting Goddess and the Stoney Eye: Divinity and Flint in Pharaonic Egypt (Carolyn Graves-Brown) Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Egyptian Narrative Literature (Alan B Lloyd) Nocturnal Ciphers in the Ancient Near East: Egyptian Dream Exegesis from a Comparative Perspective (Scott Noegel) In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice (Daniel Ogden) Sinuhe's Dream (Richard B Parkinson) A black cat from right, and a scarab on your head: New sources for Ancient Egyptian Divination (Joachim Quack) The Dreams of the Twins of St. Petersburg (John Ray) 'and each staff transformed into a snake' The Serpent Wand in Egyptian Magic (Robert K Ritner) A Lost Dream Episode (Anthony J Spalinger) Introduction: Tomorrow is Yesterday (Kasia Szpakowska) Entangled or Connected: The power of knots and knotting in Ancient Egypt (Willemina Wendrich)
