The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead

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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.

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With a generous, thorough selection, editors Rita Lucarelli and Martin Andreas Stadler offer in The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead a wide-ranging synthesis of essential scholarship on Egyptian religious and mystical practices, centered on the central text of that tradition.