Looking beyond the Text
New Approaches to Scribal Culture and Practices in Ancient Egypt
Published on 20. February 2025
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-90-04-72339-9 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-72339-9 (9789004723399)
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Margaret Geoga, Ph.D. (2020), Brown University, is Assistant Professor of Egyptology at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on ancient Egyptian literature, scribal culture, textual transmission, and reception, both in ancient Egypt itself and in later periods.
Aurore Motte, Ph.D. (2018), University of Liege, is a postdoctoral researcher of the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium). She has published on ancient Egyptian language, literature, and paratext. She is currently focusing on the Book of Kemyt.
Judith Jurjens, Ph.D. (2024), recently defended her dissertation at Leiden University. Her work focuses on the ancient Egyptian wisdom instruction The Teaching of Khety and its educational context. She has published several articles on the subject..
Aurore Motte, Ph.D. (2018), University of Liege, is a postdoctoral researcher of the National Fund for Scientific Research (Belgium). She has published on ancient Egyptian language, literature, and paratext. She is currently focusing on the Book of Kemyt.
Judith Jurjens, Ph.D. (2024), recently defended her dissertation at Leiden University. Her work focuses on the ancient Egyptian wisdom instruction The Teaching of Khety and its educational context. She has published several articles on the subject..
Content
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)
?Emil 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 DiazHernandez
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 Toepfer
Index
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)
?Emil 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 DiazHernandez
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 Toepfer
Index