28. The art of forgery in the manuscript culture in antiquity / 1. The transition from the coffin texts to the Book of the Dead / Rita Lucarelli and Malcolm Choat. 2. The Book of the Dead in the eighteenthth 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 Papyri in the twenty-sixth dynasty / Svenja A. Gülden -- 6. The last Books of the Dead / Florence Albert -- Part II Types of sources : the material aspect of the Book of the Dead. 7. Writing Book of the Dead manuscripts : tasks and tradtions / Ursula Verhoeven -- 8. Production and layout of new kingdom Book of the Dead papyri / Ogden Goelet -- 9. Female owners of the Book of the Dead papyri / Susanne T̲öpfer -- 10. The Book of the Dead on tissues : shrouds 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 -- Part 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 -- Part 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 Sayed Tawfik -- 19. The field of offerings or field of reeds / Milagros Álvarez Sosa -- 20. The judgment / Jirí Janák -- 21. Gods and demons in the Book of the Dead / Rita Lucarelli -- 22. The so-called "Chapitres supplémentaires" / Annik Wüthrich -- 23. Illustrations in Saite through Ptolemaic Books of the Dead / Malcolm Mosher -- Part V The Book of the Dead in modern times. 24. The time of the pioneers (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries) / Barbara Lüscher -- 25. Just a catchy title? : on the history of reception of the Egyptian Book of the Dead / Aris Legowski -- 26. Translating the Book of the Dead / Burkhard Backes -- 27. The conservation of Book of the Dead Papyri / Myriam Krutzsch -- 28. The art of forgery in the manuscript culture in antiquity / Rita Lucarelli and Malcolm Choat.
Summary:
"Among the broad spectrum of ancient Egyptian religious literature, the Book of the Dead is the most representative of the mortuary religion and of the magical and ritual practices belonging to it. Moreover, its rich corpus of texts and images provides unique information on the scribal practices, mortuary traditions, myths, and priestly rituals in ancient Egypt from the 2nd Millennium BCE to the Roman Period. "Book of the Dead" is the conventional name given by Egyptologists to a collection of magical compositions called in ancient Egyptian "Book for coming forth by day". This title refers to the main wish of the deceased, who wished to be able to leave his tomb and move freely between this world and the next. Each Book of the Dead manuscript is unique, although we know of the existence of workshops where the papyri were bought and therefore a few common stylistic features can be recognized according to different regional traditions of writing and manufacture. The spells also present many and various parallels with other magical and ritual texts attested in temples, on magical objects, and amulets, showing that the mortuary literature had in fact a strong link with the daily religious life and beliefs of the ancient Egyptians. This Handbook is the first guide to all the aspects and topics of research both in relation to the Book of the Dead itself and to broader research on ancient Egyptian religion and magic"-- Provided by publisher.
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