Looking beyond the text : new approaches to scribal culture and practices in ancient Egypt / edited by Margaret Geoga, Aurore Motte, Judith Jurjens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Geoga, Margaret, editor.

Motte, Aurore, editor.

Jurjens, Judith, 1980- editor.

Series:

Harvard Egyptological studies ; v. 27.

Harvard Egyptological studies ; volume 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egyptian literature--History and criticism.

Egyptian literature.

Egyptian language--Texts.

Egyptian language.

Scribes--Egypt.

Scribes.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 342 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Other Title:

New approaches to scribal culture and practices in ancient Egypt

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025]

Summary:

"Looking Beyond the Text investigates the production, transmission, and reception of texts and manuscripts in ancient Egypt, focusing on the complex practices and culture of the scribes who made them. Drawing on theories and methods from other disciplines such as literary studies, neuroscience, and book history, the authors discuss the physical practices of writing, social contexts of texts and manuscripts, and scribes themselves. The papers examine a wide range of manuscripts, including letters, medical compendia, poems, religious corpora, and other text genres, written on varied media in different time periods. The resulting collection offers new perspectives on the key role of scribes in ancient Egypt and models more contextualized and materially informed modes of philology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Charts

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Editors

Introduction

Margaret Geoga, Aurore Motte and Judith Jurjens

Part1 Social Contexts

1 Investigating Scribal Practice and the Instruction of a Man to His Son at Tell Edfu ( TEO 131)

KathrynE. Bandy

2 A Bookish Burial: Kings, Scribes, and the Amduat Catalog

Jordan Miller

3 Identifying Scribes: Piay in the Colophon of P.Chester Beatty II

Judith Jurjens

Part2 Education and Formation

4 Testing the Limits of the Sign: Writing Strategies for Advanced Scribes from the Educational Board BM EA 194

Amr ElHawary

5 A Rare Coptic Legal Exercise: O . TT 157 Inv.478/1

Rowida AboBakrMohamedFawzy

Part3 Writing Mechanics

6 Scribal Practice in Heqanakht Letters: Analyzing the Epistolary Formula beyond the Script

Ahmed Osman

7 Variability of Scribal Practices in the Copy of Retrograde Texts during the 21st Dynasty (1069-945 BCE )

Émil Joubert

8 The Life and Scribes of a Late Period Medical Papyrus: Tracing the Composition, Use and Deterioration of Papyrus Brooklyn 47.218.75+.86

Juliane Unger

Part4 Scribal Materials

9 The Effect of the Reed Pen on Demotic Paleography in a Late-Ptolemaic Archive from Tebtunis

Leah Packard-Grams

10 Permanence of Intellectual Creation through the Materiality of Stone: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Egyptian Book Culture

Chana Algarvio

Part5 Transmission and Reception

11 Evidence of Diglossia and Bilingualism in Old Egyptian Mortuary Literature of the Middle Kingdom

RobertoAntonio DíazHernández

12 The Textual History of the Demotic "Prebend of Amun"

JacquelineE. Jay

13 Infographics in Museums: The Use of Graphic Visual Representations in the Mediation of Textual Content on Papyri

Susanne Töpfer

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 07, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Looking beyond the text

ISBN:

9004723404

9789004723405

OCLC:

1498819477

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license