Report of the activities of the William (Bill) Gay Research Chair for 2009:
Conference Presentations:
- “The Book of the Dead as Canon,” Society of Biblical Literature Meetings, New Orleans, 21 November 2009.
- “The Book of the Dead as Canon,” Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Scholar’s Colloquium, Toronto, 7 November 2009.
- “Abraham in Egypt,” Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Annual Symposium, Toronto, 6 November 2009.
- “Multispectral Imaging of the Chester Beatty Manichaean Documents,”
Seventh International Conference of Manichaean Studies, Dublin, 10
September 2009.
- “The Cult of Chespisichis,” Social and Religious Development of Egypt in the First Millennium BCE, Prague, 1 September 2009.
- “The Larger Issue” FAIR Conference, Sandy, Utah, 7 August 2009.
- “The Book of the Dead as Canon,” The Egyptian Book of the Dead:
recent research and new perspectives, British Museum, London, 23 July
2009.
Publications:
Books Edited:
- Hugh W. Nibley, An Approach to the Book of Abraham, Collected Works
of Hugh Nibley 18 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2009).
Articles:
- “A New Look at the ꜥnḫ pꜣ by Formula,” in Actes du IXe Congrès international des études démotiques, ed. Ghislaine Widmer et Didier Devauchelle (Cairo: Institut Français Archéologie Orientale, 2009), 133-44.
- “A New Look at the Conception of the Human Being in Ancient Egypt,” in ‘Being in Ancient Egypt’: Thoughts on Agency, Materiality and Cognition, ed. Rune Nord, Annette Kjølby (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009), 1-14.
- “Fronted Adverbials,” Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 18 (2009): 83-90.
- “Editorial Foreword: Marginal Notes,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 36 (2009): v-vi.
- “Of Heart Scarabs and Balance Weights: A New Interpretation of Book of the Dead 30B,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 36 (2009): 1-15.
- “Hugh Nibley and the Joseph Smith Papyri,” in Hugh W. Nibley, An Approach to the Book of Abraham, Collected Works of Hugh Nibley 18 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book and FARMS, 2009), xiii-xxxix.
