Report of the activities of the William (Bill) Gay Research Chair for 2004:
Conference Presentations:
- “‘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.
- “Non-Round Hypocephali” Aegyptus et Pannonia III, Budapest, Hungary, November 2004.
- “The Education of an Egyptian Priest” Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities, Toronto, Canada, 30 October 2004.
- “The Origin of the Imperfect Converter” Society for the Study of
Egyptian Antiquities Scholars Colloquium, Toronto, Canada, 29 October
2004.
- “Were Egyptian Texts Divinely Written?” Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists, Grenoble, France, 9 September 2004.
- “Did Egyptian Prophets Prophesy?” American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meetings, Tuscon, Arizona, 18 April 2004.
Publications:
Articles:
- “Overlooked Evidence for Sesostris III’s Foreign Policy,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 41 (2004): 23-31.
- “Notes on the Egyptian Motifs in Mozart’s Magic Flute,” BYU Studies 43/3 (2004): 149-160.
- “‘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).
- “Quotations of the Sealed Portions of the Book of Mormon,” Insights: An Ancient Window 24/6 (2004): 2-3.
- “Prophets, Initiation and the Egyptian Temple,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 31 (2004): 97-107.
- “Sꜣ mi nn: A Temporary Conclusion,” Göttinger Miszellen 202 (2004): 55-58.
- “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.
- “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.
- “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:
- 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)
- 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.
- 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)