Annual Report 2017

Report of the activities of the William (Bill) Gay Research Chair for 2017:

Conference Presentations: 


  1. “Greco-Roman Coffins from Thebes,” Second Vatican Coffin Conference, Vatican City, 6-9 June 2017.
  2. “Historicity of Coptic Martyrdoms and Its Implications,” 4th International Symposium on Coptic Culture: Advocacy, Activism, and Freedom: Historical Perspectives, Stevenage, United Kingdom, 30 June 2017.
  3.  “Miscellanies from the Archive of the Theban Choachytes,” 13th International Conference of Demotic Studies, Leipzig, Germany, 7 September 2017.
  4. “Götterdämmerung: Egyptian Religion in Roman Egypt,” Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Annual Symposium, 4 November 2017.
  5. “The Canaanite Gods El and Yah in Egypt,” American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Meeting, 18 November 2017.
  6. “Religious Tolerance versus Religious Freedom: The Case of Persian Period Elephantine” Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, Oxford, England, 4-6 December 2017.

Archaeological Excavations:

  1. BYU Egypt Excavations, 2017 Season. 

Publications: 

Books:
  1. An Introduction to the Book of Abraham (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, 2017).
Articles:
  1. "Hypocephali as Astronomical Documents," Aegyptus et Pannonia V, ed. Hedvig Gyory and Adam Szabo (Budapest, 2016), 59-71.
  2. "Jesus's Courtroom in John," in "To Seek the Law of the Lord", ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson and Daniel C. Peterson (Orem, Utah: Interpreter Fouunndation, 2017).
  3. "Book of Abraham, facsimiles of," in Pearl of Great Price Reference Companion, ed. Dennis L. Largey (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017), 54-60.
  4. "Book of Abraham, selected non-English words in," in Pearl of Great Price Reference Companion, ed. Dennis L. Largey (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017), 63.
  5. "Book of Breathings," in Pearl of Great Price Reference Companion, ed. Dennis L. Largey (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017), 69-70. 
  6. "Hypocephalus," in Pearl of Great Price Reference Companion, ed. Dennis L. Largey (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017), 161-62.
  7. "Kirtland Egyptian Papers," in Pearl of Great Price Reference Companion, ed. Dennis L. Largey (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017), 192.
  8. "Olishem, plain of," in Pearl of Great Price Reference Companion, ed. Dennis L. Largey (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017), 226-27.
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