Annual Report 2006

Report of the activities of the William (Bill) Gay Research Chair for 2006:

Conference Presentations: 

1. “The Export of the Egyptian Scribe,” Society of Biblical Literature Meetings, Washington, D.C., 20 November 2006. 
2. “Cheek by Jowl: Demotic Evidence for Fourth Century Religious Interactions in the Nile Valley,” Society of Biblical Literature Meetings, Washington, D.C., 20 November 2006. 
3. “The Export of the Egyptian Scribe,” Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Scholars Colloquium, Toronto, Canada, 3 November 2006. 
4. “A New Look at the Conception of the Human Being in Ancient Egypt,” Being in Ancient Egypt: Thoughts on agency, materiality and cognition. Conference at the Carsten Niebuhr Section of Near Eastern Studies, Institute of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 29-30, 2006. 
5. “Four Notes on the Ka,” American Research Center in Egypt Fifty-Seventh Annual Meeting, Jersey City, New Jersey, 29 April 2006. 
6. “Glossed Over: Ancient Egyptian Interpretations of Their Religion,” Evolving Egypt: Innovation, Appropriation, and Reinterpretation, Laie, Hawaii, 2-4 February 2006. 

Publications: 

Articles: 

1. “Non-Round Hypocephali,” Aegyptus et Pannonia III, ed. Hedvig Győry (Budapest: MEBT-ÓEB Comité de l’Égypte Ancienne de l’Association Amicale Hongroise-Égyptienne, 2006), 41-58. 

Review Essays: 

1. “The Old Testament as Reliable History,” FARMS Review 18/1 (2006): 425-30. 
2. “Context Matters,” Review of Biblical Literature (March 2006) (http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/4294_4269.pdf)