The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead

Rita Lucarelli is Associate Professor of Egyptology at UC Berkeley and Faculty Curator of Egyptology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley and Fellow of the Digital Humanities in Berkeley. She worked as a Research Scholar and a Lecturer at the Department of Egyptology of Bonn University, where she was part of the team of the "Book of the Dead Project". She is presently working at a project aiming at realizing 3D models of ancient Egyptian coffins, the "Book of the Dead in 3D". She is also completing a new monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt entitled Agents of Punishment and Protection: Ancient Egyptian Demonology in the First Millenium BCE, and she is one of the coordinators of the international project "Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project", or "Demon Things." Martin Andreas Stadler is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Würzburg. He taught as acting professor at the University of Tübingen in 2009/10, and was visiting professor in Paris 2015. His principal research interests are Egyptian funerary art, demotic literature and Egyptian Religion, including the Ptolemaic-Roman era studying whether and how the Egyptians maintained their cultural identity during the periods of Greek and Roman governance.

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