Classical and Biblical Culture in Late Antique Egypt Some Notes

Ain Shams University, 5-7 May 2015, Cairo, Egypt.

An examination of the History of Egyptology and its influence on the Gesenius Dictionary would appear, at first glance, to be a most dubious enterprise. Whereas Wilhelm Gesenius published his dictionary in 1810/ 1812, Jean François Champollion did not decipher the Hieroglyphs until 1822. So there could not be any influence of Egyptology on Gesenius' dictionary. The academic discipline of Egyptology as we know it today was founded in the years after Champollion's discovery and thus Gesenius could not have used Egyptological studies in the first edition of his famous dictionary. But the first edition was not the last one, and the history of Egyptology, or more precisely of scholarly speculation on Ancient Egypt, links up with Old Testament research in many respects. Even before the discovery of the Hieroglyphs, Egypt and its influence on the Hebrew Bible were important when studying subjects like Israel's sojourn in Egypt, the Exodus, or the Joseph Story. 1 In the following essay, I will try to point out some aspects of Egyptology in the different editions of Gesenius' dictionary. My contribution is divided into three parts. I will start with a brief overview of the history of Egyptology, after which I will discuss the influence of Egyptology on the different editions of the 'Gesenius.' In the third part, I will highlight what I see as potentially fruitful avenues of research regarding possible Egyptian etymologies of Ancient Hebrew words. I The history of Egyptology-a brief outline The first edition of Gesenius' dictionary was published at a time when Egyptology in the modern sense did not exist. Knowledge about Ancient Egypt, its culture, religion, and monuments, was based for the most part

This paper has been circulating online for a while and I thought it was time to update it. Aside from minor corrections, rearrangements, and additional quotations, nothing significant has changed from the original.

Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum, 2018

The Book of Revelation has been something of an outlier within parts of the Christian tradition, as evidenced, among other things, by its peculiar canon-ical reception. As regards the earliest period of transmission, however, the Greek text of Revelation is relatively well attested. In this vein, the present study seeks to examine the relevant Greek materials from late antique Egypt, and thus elucidate the earliest textual and material transmission of this book. The manuscripts in question will be surveyed with a particular focus on their distinctive features such as book formats and scribal practices, as well as textual characteristics, followed by reflections on their socio-historical significance.

Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 1993

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The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt III: Contributions on Archaeology, Art, Religion, and Written Sources, 2022

Cristina Alù, Some Remarks on the sx.tjw and their Overseers: The Multiple Meanings of sx.t and the Social Identity of the Marsh-dwellers Daphna Ben-Tor, James M. Weinstein, Scarabs from a Late Middle Kingdom Workshop at Tell el-Dab‘a Edward Brovarski, A Hitherto Unpublished Middle Kingdom Stela in the Field Museum of Natural History – Chicago Arkadiy E. Demidchik, Some Remarks on Neha’s Spell for Gaining Power over his Servant Statuettes Micòl Di Teodoro, The Preservation of Monuments in the Written Sources of Dynastic Egypt between 2000 and 1550 BC Gudelia García Fernández, Angela M.J. Tooley, Paddle Dolls from the Spanish Mission to Dra Abu el-Naga: Images and Contexts Wolfram Grajetzki, Middle Kingdom Coffins and Coffin Fragments in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Ali Hassan Eid, The Journey from Authenticity to Forgery: A Case-study on an Adzeblade (Egyptian Museum Cairo JE 67944) of the Thirteenth Dynasty Khaled Hassan, Middle Kingdom Wooden Board with Hieratic Inscriptions from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (JE 30442/CG 25369/SR 920) Dinara Hereikhanova, Not only for a King: Nms-headdresses on the Objects of the Twelfth to Eighteenth Dynasties Lubica Hudáková, The Acquisition of a Coffin – Tracing the (Art) History of the Coffin of Neby (MFA 04.2058): From Dayr al-Barsha to Beni Hassan to Boston Alexander Ilin-Tomich, Minor contributions to Middle Kingdom prosopography Esmeralda Lundius, Processing Sites in the Funerary Landscape: Observations on Ancient Egyptian Offering Trays and ‘Soul houses’ Ahmed M. Mekawy Ouda, Seven Oyster Shells at the Egyptian Museum Cairo (CG 12825-12829, JE 28320 and JE 91753) Ahmed M. Mekawy Ouda, Khaled Hassan, Wooden Kohl Tube with Hieratic Inscriptions at the Egyptian Museum Cairo (CG 44703/JE 18553) Gianluca Miniaci, Cornelius von Pilgrim, An Unusual Mutilation of the Crocodile Hieroglyphic Sign in an Early Middle Kingdom Stela from the Sanctuary II of Heqaib at Elephantine Stephen Quirke, Three Types of inscribed Middle Kingdom objects in the Purchases by Flinders Petrie Patricia Rigault, A new Occurrence of CT 398 on two Coffin Fragments in the Louvre Museum Julien Siesse, The Late Middle Kingdom Stela Louvre N 196 = C 42 from the Louvre Museum Uta Siffert, ‘Death ends a Life, not a Relationship’. Some Thoughts on Designatin the Deceased Ax and Wsir NN in the Middle Kingdom Danijela Stefanović, The Administration of the Middle Kingdom Weaving Workshops: a Note on the Textual and Iconographic Data Mohamed Youssef Ali, The Statue of Ameny from his Tomb at Lisht

A study of the commonalities, similarities, and plausible influences from the ancient Egyptian culture that appear in the Bible