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Author : Edward O. D. Love
Release : 2019
Genre : Egyptian language
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Book Synopsis Innovative Scripts and Spellings in Roman Egypt by : Edward O. D. Love
Download or read book Innovative Scripts and Spellings in Roman Egypt written by Edward O. D. Love. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Oliver David Love
Release : 2019
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Book Synopsis Innovative Scripts and Spellings in Roman Egypt by : Edward Oliver David Love
Download or read book Innovative Scripts and Spellings in Roman Egypt written by Edward Oliver David Love. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward O. D. Love
Release : 2021-12-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Script Switching in Roman Egypt by : Edward O. D. Love
Download or read book Script Switching in Roman Egypt written by Edward O. D. Love. This book was released on 2021-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Script Switching in Roman Egypt studies the hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Old Coptic manuscripts which evidence the conventions governing script use, the domains of writing those scripts inhabited, and the shift of scripts between those domains, to elucidate the obsolescence of those scripts from their domains during the Roman Period. Utilising macro-level frameworks from sociolinguistics, the textual culture from four sites is contextualised within the priestly communities of speech, script, and practice that produced them. Utilising micro-level frameworks from linguistics, both the scripts of the Egyptian writing system written, and the way the orthographic methods fundamental to those scripts changed, are typologised. This study also treats the way in which morphographic and alphabetic orthographies are deciphered and understood by the reading brain, and how changes in spelling over time both resulted from and responded to dimensions of orthographic depth. Through a cross-cultural consideration of script obsolescence in Mesoamerica and Mesopotamia and by analogy to language death in speech communities, a model of domain-bydomain shift and obsolescence of the scripts of the Egyptian writing system is proposed.
Author : Edward O. D. Love
Release : 2022-12-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Petitioning Osiris by : Edward O. D. Love
Download or read book Petitioning Osiris written by Edward O. D. Love. This book was released on 2022-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petitioning Osiris re-edits, re-analyses, and re-contextualises the "Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus" and "Curse of Artemisia" – written petitions to different manifestations of Osiris – among the Letters to Gods in Demotic, Greek, and Old Coptic from Egypt. The textual traditions of the Letters to Gods, to the Dead, and Oracle Questions which evidence that ritual tradition of petitioning deities are contextualised among contemporary textual traditions, such as Letters and Petitions to Human Recipients, and Documents of Self-Dedication, and compared to later ritual traditions such as proactive and reactive curses without and with judicial features (so-called Prayers for Justice) in Greek and Coptic from Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean. As with all other Letters to Gods, the Old Coptic Schmidt Papyrus and Curse of Artemisia evidence not only the struggles and aspirations of their petitioners, but also the way in which they conceptualised that they could bring about desired outcomes in their lived experience by engaging divine agency through a reciprocal relationship of human-divine interaction. Petitioning Osiris therefore provides a starting point and springboard for readers interested in these, or comparable, textual and ritual traditions from the Ancient World.
Author : Maarten J. Raven
Release : 2012
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Egyptian Magic by : Maarten J. Raven
Download or read book Egyptian Magic written by Maarten J. Raven. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Egyptians were firmly convinced of the importance of magic, which was both a source of supernatural wisdom and a means of affecting one's own fate. The gods themselves used it for creating the world, granting mankind magical powers as an aid to the struggle for existence. Magic formed a link between human beings, gods, and the dead. Magicians were the indispensable guardians of the god-given cosmic order, learned scholars who were always searching for the Magic Book of Thoth, which could explain the wonders of nature. Egyptian Magic, illustrated with wonderful and mysterious objects from European and Egyptian museum collections, describes how Egyptian sorcerers used their craft to protect the weakest members of society, to support the gods in their fight against evil, and to imbue the dead with immortality, and explores the arcane systems and traditions of the occult that governed this well-organized universe of ancient Egypt.
