Annual Report 2007

Report of the activities of the William (Bill) Gay Research Chair for 2007:

Conference Presentations: 


  1. “An Egyptian Version of Atramhasis?” Society of Biblical Literature Meetings, San Diego, 19 November 2007. 
  2. “Fronted Adverbials,” Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Scholars Colloquium, Toronto, Canada, 4 November 2007. 
  3. “‘But Sweeter Far Thy Face to See and in Thy Presence Rest’: Egyptian Temple Rituals,” Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Annual Symposium, Toronto, Canada, 3 November 2007. 
  4. “Demotic, Greek, and Coptic,” Graeco-Aegyptiaca / Aegypto-Graeca, Reading, England, 17-19 September 2007. 
  5. “Some Puzzles from the Joseph Smith Papyri” FAIR Conference, Sandy, Utah, 2 August 2007. 
  6. “New Light on the Joseph Smith Papyri,” American Research Center in Egypt Fifty-Eighth Annual Meeting, Toledo, Ohio, 20 April 2007. 
  7. “The Great and Last Sacrifice” Behold the Lamb of God: The 2007 BYU Easter Conference, 7 April 2007. 

Publications: 


Articles: 


  1. “The Origin of the Imperfect Converter,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 43 (2007): 253-59. 
  2. “New Light on the Joseph Smith Papyri,” FARMS Review 19/2 (2007): 245-59. 
  3. “Were Egyptian Texts Divinely Written?” Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists, ed. Jean-Claude Goyon and Christine Cardin, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 150 (Leuven: Peeters, 2007), 807-813. 
  4. “The Use of the Daily Temple Liturgy in the Book of the Dead,” in Totenbuch-Forschungen: Gesammelte Beiträge des 2. Internationalen Totenbuch-Symposiums, Bonn, 25. bis 29. September 2005, ed. Burkhard Backes, Irmtraut Munro and Simone Stöhr (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007), 73-86. 
  5. “The Family in the Third (and Second) Millennium . . . BC: Where We've Been” in The Family in the New Millennium: World Voices Supporting the “Natural” Clan, 3 vols., ed. A. Scott Loveless and Thomas B. Holman (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2007), 1:114-123. 

Review Essays: 


  1. “A Method for Studying the Facsimiles,” FARMS Review 19/1 (2007): 347-53. 

Reviews: 


  1. unsigned review of Ben Witherington III, The Problem with Evangelical Theology: Testing the Foundations of Calvanism, Dispensationalism and Wesleyanism (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2005), in FARMS Review 19/2 (2007): 268-72. 
  2. unsigned review of Ramsay MacMullen, Voting about God in Early Church Councils (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), in FARMS Review 19/1 (2007): 365-66.
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