The thirty-nine articles in this volume, One Who Loves Knowledge, have been contributed by colleagues, students, friends and family in honour of Richard Jasnow, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. Despite his claiming to be “just a demoticist,” Richard Jasnow’s research interests and specialties are broad, spanning religious and historical topics, along with new editions of demotic texts, including most particularly the Book of Thoth. A number of the authors demonstrate their appreciation for Jasnow’s contributions to the understanding of this difficult text. The volume also includes other studies on literature, Ptolemaic history and even the god Thoth himself. It features detailed images and abundant hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, Coptic and Greek texts.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Preface by Betsy Bryan
Preface by Mark Smith
Bibliography of Richard Jasnow
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Yekaterina BARBASH
Book of the Dead Scholarship in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Case of pBrooklyn 37.1484E
Horst BEINLICH
Dein sei die Maat, Thot verleihe sie dir
Betsy M. BRYAN
A Little Thoth Goes a Long Way
Kathlyn M. COONEY
Finding Nitocris: Patterns of Female Rule at the End of Egypt’s Old Kingdom
John Coleman DARNELL
Epiphany or Erudition? The Inception of Atonism
Katherine DAVIS
Silent Signs: Determinatives as Markers of Scribal Knowledge
Paul DELNERO
The First Days of School in Mesopotamia: Preliminary Thoughts on the Personal Name List Inana-teš
Didier DEVAUCHELLE and Ghislaine WIDMER
L’ostracon Louvre E 11037: Une lettre à un mort en démotique?
Christina DI CERBO
Some Observations on the Demotic Lease P. Tebtynis dem. 5944
Mahmoud EBEID and Cary J. MARTIN
A Demotic Administrative Papyrus from the Tuna el-Gebel Necropolis (P. el-Ashmunein Magazine Inv. No. 1455-B)
Marina ESCOLANO-POVEDA
“Black Is Her Hair, More Than the Black of the Night”: The Tale of the Herdsman and the Origins of Egyptian Love Poetry
Marian H. FELDMAN
Making an Impression: How to Seal an Ur III Period Administrative Tablet in Nippur
Hans-W. FISCHER-ELFERT
Göttlich, nicht königlich: Ein neuer Thot-Hymnus aus Deir el-Medineh
José M. GALÁN
Black Spread over Mummy Cases and Tomb Walls in Dra Abu el-Naga
François GAUDARD
Funerary Shrouds from Dendera in the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, Part II: Shroud OIM E4789
Friedhelm HOFFMANN
Anmerkungen zu P. Loeb 2
Fatma ISMAIL
A Statue of Ptah-Sokar-Osiris in the Archaeological Collection of the Johns Hopkins University
Michael JASNOW
Richard at the Well
Jacob LAUINGER
Idrimi’s Aunts at Emar: On Line 5 of the Idrimi Inscription
Theodore J. LEWIS
Gift Giving, Generosity, and the Etymology of Manna
Sandra LIPPERT and Maren SCHENTULEIT
Papyrus Berlin P. 7056: Division of a Kleros between Members of a Priestly Family from Roman Soknopaiou Nesos
Alice MANDELL
Speaking Clearly through the Canaanite Amarna Letters: How to Connect with an Audience in Cuneiform
Franziska NAETHER
“Let the Ibis Be Consulted”: Letters Mentioning Cult Practices
Jeremy POPE
A New Inscription from Taharqo’s “Cattle Road”
Luigi PRADA
New Studies on the Greek Version of the Demotic Myth of the Sun’s Eye: An Additional Fragment
(P. Vindob. G 29357) and an Analysis of the kwf/lynx-Monkey
Joachim QUACK
Ein frühdemotischer Weisheitstext: Papyrus Berlin 23504
Robert K. RITNER
Jubilating Baboons and the Bes Pantheos
Kim RYHOLT
Notes on the Copenhagen Hawara Papyri
J J SHIRLEY
Defining the xA n TAty: Or, Where Did the Vizier Conduct His Work?
Ariel SINGER and Janet H. JOHNSON
Some Egyptian-Greek Language/Script Interactions as Reflected in Magical
Mark SMITH
Political, Social, and Economic Aspects of Dreams in the Archive of Hor
Martin Andreas STADLER
A New Version of the Beginning of the Book of Traversing Eternity: The Hieroglyphic-Demotic Funerary Stela of Pakhom, Son of Lykos, from Edfu (22 March 18 BCE)
John TAIT
Horus and Seth from North Saqqara: A Demotic Papyrus Fragment Excavated by the EES at the Sacred Animal Necropolis
Steve VINSON
Tabubue and the Menstrual Tabu
Günter VITTMANN
Eine pseudohieratische Gefäßinschrift der Spätzeit aus Deir el-Bahari (Kairo JE 56283)
Alexandra VON LIEVEN
The Name of the Teacher in the Ritual for Entering the Chamber of Darkness, alias “Book of Thoth”
Karl-Theodor ZAUZICH
Überlegungen zu einigen libyschen Personennamen
Karl-Theodor ZAUZICH
Jüdische Namen in einer demotischen Bier- und Weizenzuteilung aus Elephantine
Lingxin ZHANG
In What Ways Do the Gods Know You? A Bilingual Letter (Cairo Mus. Inv. Nos. 10313, 10328, 30961) Revisited
Subject Index
Index of Ancient Sources
