Among the broad spectrum of ancient Egyptian religious literature, the Book of the Dead is the most representative of ancient Egyptian mortuary religion and of the magical and ritual practices belonging to it. Moreover, its rich corpus of texts and images provides unique information on the scribal practices, mortuary traditions, myths, and priestly rituals in ancient Egypt from the 2nd Millennium BCE to the Roman Period. The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead is the first major guide to collect and synthesize the wide-ranging body of scholarship on the Book of the Dead as well as the broader literature on ancient Egyptian religion and magic. Useful for both curious undergraduates and advanced scholars, this collection of contributions from specialists in the field will become a go-to resource for years to come on everything from the textual history of the Book of the Dead to its material origins and historical reception. Editors Rita Lucarelli and Martin Andreas Stadler have curated a singular volume that is both state of the art and comprehensive.

Table of Contents:
Introduction I The Textual History of the Book of the Dead 1. From the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts to the Book of the Dead Louise Gestermann 2. The Book of the Dead in the 18th Dynasty Irmtraut Munro 3. The Ramesside Book of the Dead and the Deir el-Medina tradition Barbara Lüscher 4. The Book of the Dead in the Third Intermediate Period Giuseppina Lenzo 5. The Book of the Dead in the 25th/26th Dynasty Svenja Gülden 6. The Last Books of the Dead Florence Albert II Types of Sources: the Material Aspect of the Book of the Dead 7. Scribes and writing traditions Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen 8. Production and layout of the Book of the Dead papyri Ogend Goelet 9. The Female owners of the Book of the Dead Susanne Töpfer 10. The Book of the Dead on tissue and mummy bandages Annie Gasse 11. The Book of the Dead in tombs Silvia Einaudi 12. The Book of the Dead in temples Holger Kockelmann III The Book of the Dead's Position in Ancient Egyptian Religion 13. The Book of the Dead as a source for the study of ancient Egyptian religion: methodology, problems, prospects Martin Andreas Stadler 14. The Funerary Literature Related to the Book of the Dead Foy Scalf 15. The Book of the Dead in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods and the contemporary funerary texts Andrea Kucharek 16. The Book of the Ba Andrea Kucharek IV Particular Aspects of the Book of the Dead's Contents 17. Thematic groups and sequences of spells Felicitas Weber 18. Spell 1 of the Book of the Dead and its Vignette Tarek Tawfik 19. The Field of Offering/Field of Reeds Milagros Álvarez Sosa 20. The Judgement over The Final Judgement Jirí Janák 21. The so-called "Chapitres supplémentaires" Annik Wüthrich 22. Vignettes Malcolm Mosher V The Book of the Dead in Modern Times 23. The time of the pioneers Barbara Lüscher 24. Modern Reception Aris Legowski 25. Translating the Book of the Dead Burkhard Backes 26. Conservation and Restoration of a Book of the Dead Roll Myriam Krutzsch 27. Choat, Forgeries of the Book of the Dead Rita Lucarelli