Annual Report 2015

Annual Report 2015

Report of the activities of the William (Bill) Gay Research Chair for 2015:

Conference Presentations: 


  1. “The Development of the Book of the Dead in the Early Eighteenth Dynasty” American Research Center in Egypt Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, 26 April 2015.
  2. “Ein Forschungsbericht zum Buch Abrahams,” FAIR Conference, Darmstadt, Germany, 5 June 2015. 
  3.  “Subordinating and Volitional (Non-Indicative) Verb Forms in Phonecian and Luwian Inscriptions,” co-authored with Aaron Schade, 12. Mainz International Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew & The Idea of Writing, Mainz, Germany, 1 November 2015.
  4. “Categories of Volition in Luwian and Phoenician Inscriptions: Functioning Subordinating and Volitional Forms ” American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 19 November 2015.
  5. ““Put Off Thy Shoes From Off Thy Feet”: Sandals and Sacred Space” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 21 November 2015.
  6. “The Phonecian/Luwian Bilingual Inscription of Azatiwada: The Use of the Optative Form” co-authored with Aaron Schade, Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 23 November 2015.

Publications: 

Articles:
  1. “Horos Son of Osoroeris,” in Mélanges offerts à Ola el-Aguizy, ed. Fayza Haikal (Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 2015), 169-178.
  2. “The Life of Apa Aphou, Bishop of Pemje (Oxyrhynchus),” co-authored with Lincoln Blumell, in Christian Oxyrhynchus: Text, Documents, and Sources, ed. Lincoln H. Blumell and Thomas A. Wayment (Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2015), 638-57.
  3. “The Martyrdom of Apa Epima,” in Christian Oxyrhynchus: Text, Documents, and Sources, ed. Lincoln H. Blumell and Thomas A. Wayment (Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2015), 682-697.
  4. “A Different Way of Seeing the Hand of the Lord,” Religious Educator 16/2 (2015): 112-127.
  5. “Joseph Smith and Ancient Egypt,” in Approaching Antiquity: Joseph Smith and the Ancient World, ed. Lincoln H. Blumell, Matthew J. Grey, and Andrew H. Hedges (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, 2015), 448.
  6.  “Did the Old Kingdom Collapse? A New View of the First Intermediate Period,” in Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom: Perspectives on the Pyramid Age, ed. Peter Der Manuelian and Thomas Schneider (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2015), 60-75.
  7.  “Of Tolerance and Smoked Fish,” Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy 37 (2015): 17-20.

Journals edited:
  1. Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 40 (2013-2014). (Production editor).