Looking beyond the Text : New Approaches to Scribal Culture and Practices in Ancient Egypt (Harvard Egyptological Studies)

Geoga, Margaret (EDT)/ Motte, Aurore (EDT)/ Jurjens, Judith (EDT)

Brill（2025/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 368 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004723399

Full Description

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 book history, the authors discuss the physical practices of writing, social contexts of texts and manuscripts, and scribes themselves. The papers examine a wide range of manuscripts, including letters, medical compendia, poems, religious corpora, and other text genres, written on varied media in different time periods. The resulting collection offers new perspectives on the key role of scribes in ancient Egypt and models more contextualized and materially informed modes of philology.

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 (TEO131)

 KathrynE. Bandy

2 A Bookish Burial: Kings, Scribes, and the Amduat Catalog

 Jordan Miller

3 Identifying Scribes: Piay in the Colophon of P.Chester BeattyII

 Judith Jurjens

Part2 Education and Formation

4 Testing the Limits of the Sign: Writing Strategies for Advanced Scribes from the Educational Board BM EA194

 Amr ElHawary

5 A Rare Coptic Legal Exercise: O.TT157 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