Report of the activities of the William (Bill) Gay Research Chair for 2010:
Conference Presentations:
- “Egyptian Interpretations of Abraham,” Society of Biblical Literature Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, 21 November 2010.
- “History of the Book of the Dead I,” Society of Biblical Literature Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, 20 November 2010.
- Louis C. Midgley and John Gee, “Under the Media’s Nose: Overlooked
Factors Undermining the Presidential Campaign of Mitt Romney,” Mormon
Media Studies Symposium, 11 November 2010.
- “The Book of the Dead in the Tomb of Paheri,” American Research
Center in Egypt Annual Meetings, Oakland, California, 24 April 2010.
- “Marginal Characters in the Book of Abraham Manuscripts,” FAIR Conference, Sandy, Utah, 6 August 2010 (in absentia).
Publications:
Books Edited:
- Brian M. Hauglid, A Textual History of the Book of Abraham: Manuscripts and Editions, Studies in the Book of Abraham 5 (Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2010).
- Michael D. Rhodes, Books of the Dead Belonging to Tshemmin and Neferirnub: A Translation and Commentary, Studies in the Book of Abraham 4 (Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, 2010).
Articles:
- “Editorial Decisions,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 37 (2010): vii-viii.
- “The Cult of Chespisichis,” in Egypt in Transition: Social and Religious Development of Egypt in the First Millennium BCE,
ed. Ladislav Bareš, Filip Coppens, and Květa Smoláriková (Prague: Czech
Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague,
2010), 129-45.
- “The Book of the Dead as Canon,” British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 15 (2010), 22-33.
- “James, First and Second Peter, and Jude: Epistles of Persecution,” in The Life and Teachings of the New Testament Apostles: From the Day of Pentecost to the Apocalypse, ed. Richard Neitzel Hotzapfel and Thomas A. Wayment (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2010), 171-90.
- “The Grace of Christ,” FARMS Review 22/1 (2010): 247-59.
- “Execration Rituals in Various Temples,” in 8. Ägyptologische Tempeltagung: Interconnections between Temples, ed. Monika Dolińska and Horst Beinlich (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 67-80.
- “Egyptologists’ Fallacies: Fallacies Arising from Limited Evidence,” Journal of Egyptian History 3/1 (2010): 137-58.
Review Essays:
- “On Corrupting the Youth,” FARMS Review 22/2 (2010): 195-228.
Reviews:
- review of Robert K. Ritner, The Libyan Anarchy (Atlanta: Society of
Biblical Literature, 2009) in Journal of the Society for the Study of
Egyptian Antiquities 37 (2010): 137-40.
- review of Ursula Kaplony-Heckel, Land und Leute am Nil nach
demotischen Inschriften Papyri und Ostraka: Gesammelte Schriften
(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009), in Journal of the Society for
the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 37 (2010): 127.