Annual Report 2008

Report of the activities of the William (Bill) Gay Research Chair for 2008:

Conference Presentations: 


  1. “Egyptology and Source Criticism,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, 24 November 2008. 
  2. “The Egyptian Temple: An Orientation” Students of the Ancient Near East Symposium: Temples and Ritual in Antiquity, Provo, Utah, 7 November 2008. 
  3. “Two Notes on the Book of Breathings Made by Isis,” Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Scholars’ Colloquium, Toronto, 31 October 2008. 
  4. “Hypocephali as Astronomical Diagrams,” Aegyptus et Panonnia Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, 16 October 2008. 
  5. “Execration Rituals in Various Temples,” Tenth Egyptological Tempeltagung, Warsaw, Poland, 24 September 2008. 
  6. “A New Look at the di-anx Formula,” Tenth International Congress of Demotic Studies, Leuven, Belgium, 30 August 2008. 
  7. “Textual Criticism and Textual Corruption in Coffin Texts 131-142,” Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, Rhodes, Greece, 23 May 2008. 
  8. “Some Neglected Aspects of Egypt’s Conversion to Christianity,” Coptic Culture: Past, Present, and Future, Stevenage, United Kingdom, 16 May 2008. 
  9. “Egyptologists’ Fallacies,” In Search of Egypt’s Past: Problems and Perspectives of the Historiography of Ancient Egypt, Vancouver, British Columbia, 23 April 2008. 
  10. “On the Practice of Sealing in the Book of the Dead and the Coffin Texts” American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meetings, Seattle, Washington, 26 April 2008. 

Publications: 


Articles: 


  1. “History of a Theban Priesthood,” in «Et maintenant ce ne sont plus que des villages...» Thèbes et sa région aux époques hellénistique, romaine et byzantine. Actes du Colloque tenu à Bruxelles les 2 et 3 Décembre 2005, ed. Alain Delattre and Paul Heilporn, Papyrologica Bruxellensia 34 (Bruxelles: Association Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 2008), 59-71. 
  2. “Some Puzzles from the Joseph Smith Papyri,” FARMS Review 20/1 (2008): 113-37. 
  3. “On the Practice of Sealing in the Book of the Dead and the Coffin Texts,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 35 (2008): 105-22. 
  4. “Love and Marriage in the Ancient World: An Historical Corrective,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 35 (2008): 83-103. 
  5. “The Great and Last Sacrifice,” in “Behold the Lamb of God”: An Easter Celebration, ed. Richard Neitzel Holzapfel, Frank F. Judd Jr., and Thomas A. Wayment (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, 2008), 139-54.
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