Ancient Egyptian Biographies

Contexts, Forms, Functions

Julie Stauder-Porchet, Elizabeth Frood, Andréas Stauder (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

350 Seiten

2020
Lockwood Press (Verlag)
978-1-948488-28-0 (ISBN)

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The studies collected here examine Egyptian (auto-)biographies from a variety of complementary perspectives: anthropological and contrastive perspectives; original Old Kingdom settings; text format and language; social dimensions; religious experience. Belonging to the nonroyal elites, these texts present aspects of individual lives and experience.

(Auto-)biography is a genre of ancient Egyptian written discourse that was central to high culture from its earliest periods. Belonging to the nonroyal elites, these texts present aspects of individual lives and experience, sometimes as narratives of key events, sometimes as characterizations of personal qualities. Egyptian (auto-) biographies offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which individuals fashioned distinctive selves for display and the significance of the physical, religious, and social contexts they selected. The present volume brings together specialists from a range of relevant periods, approaches, and interests. The studies collected here examine Egyptian (auto-)biographies from a variety of complementary perspectives: anthropological and contrastive perspectives; the original Old Kingdom settings; text format and language; social dimensions; and religious experience.

Introduction
Julie Stauder-Porchet, Elizabeth Frood, Andréas Stauder

Part 1. Anthropological and Contrastive Perspectives

Narrating Biography versus Biographical Indexicality
Michael Silverstein
Self-Representation in Mesopotamia: The Literary Evidence
Christopher Woods
From Living a Life to Creating a Fit Memorial
John Baines

Part 2. The Original Old Kingdom Settings

Genres and Textual Prehistories of the Egyptian Autobiography in the Old Kingdom
Julie Stauder-Porchet
(Auto-)Bioconographies versus (Auto-)Biographies in Old Kingdom Elite Tombs: Complexity Expansion of Image and Word Reflecting Personality Traits by Competitive Individuality
René van Walsem

Part 3. Text Format and Language

Autobiography versus Biography in the Second Person and Biography in the Third Person: Textual Formats, Authorship, and Apocryphal/Pseudepigraphic Works
Pascal Vernus
Clichés in Ancient Egyptian Autobiographies
Laurent Coulon
Expressions of Royal Agency: Forms of the Verb in the Old Kingdom Event Autobiography
Andréas Stauder

Part 4. Social Dimensions

The Social Context of Biographies (Old and Middle Kingdom)
Juan Carlos Moreno García
Images of Social Ascent in Biographical Self-Presentations from the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom
Katalin Anna Kóthay
jnk wr m njw.t=f : References to njw.t, Town, City in Biographies of the Second Intermediate Period
Sabine Kubisch

Part 5. Religious Experience

Living a Religious Life: The Display of Religious Experience in Egyptian Autobiographies
Maria Michela Luiselli
Participation in Religious Ceremonies, as Related in Egyptian Biographies
David Klotz

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Wilbour Studies in Egyptology and Assyriology
Verlagsort	Atlanta
Sprache	englisch
Maße	220 x 286 mm
Gewicht	1222 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-948488-28-0 / 1948488280
ISBN-13	978-1-948488-28-0 / 9781948488280
Zustand	Neuware