Annual Report 2004

Report of the activities of the William (Bill) Gay Research Chair for 2004:

Conference Presentations: 


  1. “‘There Needs No Ghost, My Lord, Come from the Grave to Tell Us This’: Dreams and Angels in Ancient Egypt” Society of Biblical Literature Meetings, San Antonio, Texas, 20 November 2004. 
  2. “Non-Round Hypocephali” Aegyptus et Pannonia III, Budapest, Hungary, November 2004. 
  3. “The Education of an Egyptian Priest” Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, Toronto, Canada, 30 October 2004. 
  4. “The Origin of the Imperfect Converter” Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Scholars Colloquium, Toronto, Canada, 29 October 2004. 
  5. “Were Egyptian Texts Divinely Written?” Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists, Grenoble, France, 9 September 2004. 
  6. “Did Egyptian Prophets Prophesy?” American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meetings, Tuscon, Arizona, 18 April 2004. 

Publications: 


Articles: 

  1. “Overlooked Evidence for Sesostris III’s Foreign Policy,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 41 (2004): 23-31. 
  2. “Notes on the Egyptian Motifs in Mozart’s Magic Flute,” BYU Studies 43/3 (2004): 149-160. 
  3. “‘There Needs No Ghost, My Lord, Come from the Grave to Tell Us This’: Dreams and Angels in Ancient Egypt” Society of Biblical Literature 2004 Seminar Papers (September 2004) (http://www.sbl-site.org/PDF/Gee_Dreams.pdf). 
  4. “Quotations of the Sealed Portions of the Book of Mormon,” Insights: An Ancient Window 24/6 (2004): 2-3. 
  5. “Prophets, Initiation and the Egyptian Temple,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 31 (2004): 97-107. 
  6. “Sꜣ mi nn: A Temporary Conclusion,” Göttinger Miszellen 202 (2004): 55-58. 
  7. “Trial Marriage in Ancient Egypt? P. Louvre E 7846 Reconsidered,” in Res severa verum gaudium, ed. Friedrich Hoffmann and Günther Vittmann (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), 223-31. 
  8. “Egyptian Society during the Twenty-sixth Dynasty,” in Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, ed. John W. Welch, David P. Seely, and JoAnn Seely (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2004), 277-98. 
  9. “A Seething Pot in the North: International Relations leading up to Lehi’s Day” in Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, ed. John W. Welch, David P. Seely, and JoAnn Seely (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2004), 543-60. 

Reviews: 

  1. review of Wolfgang Heimpel, Letters to the King of Mari: A New Translation with Historical Introduction, Notes and Commentary (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2003), in Review of Biblical Literature (September 2004) (http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/4107_3992.pdf
  2. review of Giovanni Pettinato, I re di Sumer I: Iscrizioni reali presargoniche della Mesopotamia (Brescia: Peideia Editrice, 2003), in Review of Biblical Literature (August 2004) (http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/3419_3733.pdf), in the print edtion: 8 (2005): 54-56. 
  3. review of Gérard Gertoux, The Name of God Y.eH.oW.aH Which is Pronounced as it is Written I_eH_oU_aH: Its Story (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2002), in Review of Biblical Literature (June 2004) (http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/3317_3709.pdf)