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| ISBN-13: 978-1-905125-08-1 ISBN-10: 1-905125-08-9, hardback. 250pp, 2006, | |||||||||
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editor Kasia Szpakowska was educated at the University of California,
Los Angeles, and is now Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Wales
Swansea. She is author of Behind Closed Eyes: Dreams and nightmares in Ancient
Egypt (Classical Press of Wales, 2003). She is preparing a further monograph,
on daily life in the Late Middle Kingdom. Magic, dreams and prophecy played important roles in ancient Egypt, as in other Mediterranean societies. Scholars are now approaching the whole topic of divination in antiquity with greatly enhanced attention. In this volume eminent international specialists come together to explore the practice, logic and psychology of divination among ancient Egyptians. |
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- Robert D. Bates Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin, 53, 2008, pp41-43 |
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| Contents The Social Context of Magic in the 3rd Millennium & Middle Kingdom - John Baines The End is Near - Leonard Lesko Corn Mummies: "Amulets of Life" - Maria Costanza Centrone The Spitting Goddess and the Stoney Eye: Divinity and Flint in Pharaonic Egypt - Carolyn Graves-Brown Magic, Dreams and Prophecy in Egyptian Narrative Literature - Alan B Lloyd Nocturnal Ciphers in the Ancient Near East: Egyptian Dream Exegesis from a Comparative Perspective - Scott Noegel In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice - Daniel Ogden Sinuhe's Dream - Richard B Parkinson A black cat from right, and a scarab on your head: New sources for Ancient Egyptian Divination - Joachim Quack The Dreams of the Twins of St. Petersburg - John Ray 'and each staff transformed into a snake' The Serpent Wand in Egyptian Magic - Robert K Ritner A Lost Dream Episode - Anthony J Spalinger Introduction: Tomorrow is Yesterday - Kasia Szpakowska Entangled or Connected: The power of knots and knotting in Ancient Egypt - Willemina Wendrich.} |
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