With a generous, thorough selection, editors Rita Lucarelli and Martin Andreas Stadler offer in The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead a wide-ranging synthesis of essential scholarship on Egyptian religious and mystical practices, centered on the central text of that tradition.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- I The Textual History of the Book of the Dead
- 1. From the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts to the Book of the Dead
- Louise Gestermann
- 2. The Book of the Dead in the 18th Dynasty
- Irmtraut Munro
- 3. The Ramesside Book of the Dead and the Deir el-Medina tradition
- Barbara Lüscher
- 4. The Book of the Dead in the Third Intermediate Period
- Giuseppina Lenzo
- 5. The Book of the Dead in the 25th/26th Dynasty
- Svenja Gülden
- 6. The Last Books of the Dead
- Florence Albert
- II Types of Sources: the Material Aspect of the Book of the Dead
- 7. Scribes and writing traditions
- Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen
- 8. Production and layout of the Book of the Dead papyri
- Ogend Goelet
- 9. The Female owners of the Book of the Dead
- Susanne Töpfer
- 10. The Book of the Dead on tissue and mummy bandages
- Annie Gasse
- 11. The Book of the Dead in tombs
- Silvia Einaudi
- 12. The Book of the Dead in temples
- Holger Kockelmann
- III The Book of the Dead's Position in Ancient Egyptian Religion
- 13. The Book of the Dead as a source for the study of ancient Egyptian religion: methodology, problems, prospects
- Martin Andreas Stadler
- 14. The Funerary Literature Related to the Book of the Dead
- Foy Scalf
- 15. The Book of the Dead in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods and the contemporary funerary texts
- Andrea Kucharek
- 16. The Book of the Ba
- Andrea Kucharek
- IV Particular Aspects of the Book of the Dead's Contents
- 17. Thematic groups and sequences of spells
- Felicitas Weber
- 18. Spell 1 of the Book of the Dead and its Vignette
- Tarek Tawfik
- 19. The Field of Offering/Field of Reeds
- Milagros Álvarez Sosa
- 20. The Judgement over The Final Judgement
- Jirí Janák
- 21. The so-called "Chapitres supplémentaires"
- Annik Wüthrich
- 22. Vignettes
- Malcolm Mosher
- V The Book of the Dead in Modern Times
- 23. The time of the pioneers
- Barbara Lüscher
- 24. Modern Reception
- Aris Legowski
- 25. Translating the Book of the Dead
- Burkhard Backes
- 26. Conservation and Restoration of a Book of the Dead Roll
- Myriam Krutzsch
- 27. Choat, Forgeries of the Book of the Dead
- Rita Lucarelli