Annual Report 2010

Report of the activities of the William (Bill) Gay Research Chair for 2010:

Conference Presentations: 


  1. “Egyptian Interpretations of Abraham,” Society of Biblical Literature Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, 21 November 2010. 
  2. “History of the Book of the Dead I,” Society of Biblical Literature Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, 20 November 2010. 
  3. 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. 
  4. “The Book of the Dead in the Tomb of Paheri,” American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meetings, Oakland, California, 24 April 2010. 
  5. “Marginal Characters in the Book of Abraham Manuscripts,” FAIR Conference, Sandy, Utah, 6 August 2010 (in absentia). 

Publications: 


Books Edited: 


  1. 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). 
  2. 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: 


  1. “Editorial Decisions,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 37 (2010): vii-viii. 
  2. “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. 
  3. “The Book of the Dead as Canon,” British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 15 (2010), 22-33. 
  4. “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. 
  5. “The Grace of Christ,” FARMS Review 22/1 (2010): 247-59. 
  6. “Execration Rituals in Various Temples,” in 8. Ägyptologische Tempeltagung: Interconnections between Temples, ed. Monika Dolińska and Horst Beinlich (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 67-80. 
  7. “Egyptologists’ Fallacies: Fallacies Arising from Limited Evidence,” Journal of Egyptian History 3/1 (2010): 137-58. 

Review Essays: 


  1. “On Corrupting the Youth,” FARMS Review 22/2 (2010): 195-228. 

Reviews: 


  1. 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. 
  2. 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.