Selected List of Egyptological Publications by the William (Bill) Gay Research Chair:One purpose of the William (Bill) Gay Research Chair is to support
scholarship in fields of study directly related to ancient scripture
study, such as Egyptology and other relevant ancient languages and
disciplines. This is a partial list of thirty Egyptological
publications that represent such scholarship.
The Family in Egypt:
“Egypt, Ancient, I. History and Civilization, F. Society,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception: 7. Dress-Essene Gate (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), 7:483-487.
“The Family in the Third (and Second) Millennium . . . BC: Where We've Been” in The Family in the New Millennium: World Voices Supporting the “Natural” Clan, 3 vols., ed. A. Scott Loveless and Thomas B. Holman (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2007), 1:114-123.
“Love and Marriage in the Ancient World: An Historical Corrective,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 35 (2008): 83-103.
“Notes on Egyptian Marriage: P. BM 10416 Reconsidered,” Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 15 (2001): 17-25.
“Trial Marriage in Ancient Egypt? P. Louvre E 7846 Reconsidered,” in Res severa verum gaudium, ed. Friedrich Hoffmann and Günther Vittmann (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), 223-31.
Egyptian Religion:
“Aramaic Funerary Practices in Egypt,” co-authored with Bezalel Porten, in World of the Aramaeans II: Studies in History and Archaeology in Honour of Paul-Eugène Dion,
ed. P. M. Michèle Daviau, John W. Weavers, and Michael Weigl, Journal
for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 325 (Sheffield,
England: Sheffield Press, 2001), 270-307.
“Bꜣ Sending and Its Implications,” in Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: Proceedings of the Eight International Congress of Egyptologists, Cairo, 2000, 3 vols. (Cairo: American University of Cairo Press, 2003), 2:230-37.
“The Book of the Dead as Canon,” British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 15 (2010), 22-33.
“The Cult of Chespisichis,” in Egypt in Transition: Social and Religious Developmentof Egypt in the First Millennium BCE,
ed. Ladislav Bareš, Filip Coppens, and Květa Smoláriková (Prague: Czech
Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague,
2010), 129-45.
“The Earliest Example of the pḥ-nṯr?” Göttinger Miszellen 194 (2003): 25-27.
“Edfu and Exodus,” Temple Insights, ed. William J. Hamblin and David R. Seely (2014), 67-82.
“Egypt, Ancient, I. History and Civilization, G. Religion,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception: 7. Dress-Essene Gate (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), 7:487-491.
“Execration Rituals in Various Temples,” in 8. Ägyptologische Tempeltagung: Interconnections between Temples, ed. Monika Dolińska and Horst Beinlich (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 67-80.
“Of Heart Scarabs and Balance Weights: A New Interpretation of Book of the Dead 30B,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 36 (2009): 1-15.
“History of a Theban Priesthood,” in «Et maintenant ce ne sont plus que des villages...» Thèbes et sa région aux époques hellénistique, romaine et byzantine,
ed. Alain Delattre and Paul Heilporn, Papyrologica Bruxellensia 34
(Bruxelles: Association Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, 2008), 59-71.
“A New Look at the ꜥnḫ pꜣ by Formula,” in Actes du IXe Congrès international des études démotiques, ed. Ghislaine Widmer et Didier Devauchelle (Cairo: Institut Français Archéologie Orientale, 2009), 133-44.
“A New Look at the Conception of the Human Being in Ancient Egypt,” in ‘Being in Ancient Egypt’: Thoughts on Agency, Materiality and Cognition, ed. Rune Nord, Annette Kjølby (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009), 1-14.
“A New Look at the di `nh Formula,” in Acts of the Tenth International Congress of Demotic Studies, ed. Mark Depauw and Yanne Broux (Leuven: Peeters, 2014), 73-82.
“Non-Round Hypocephali,” Aegyptus et Pannonia III, ed. Hedvig Győry (Budapest: MEBT-ÓEB Comité de l’Égypte Ancienne de l’Association Amicale Hongroise-Égyptienne, 2006), 41-58.
“On the Practice of Sealing in the Book of the Dead and the Coffin Texts,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 35 (2008): 105-22.
“Prophets, Initiation and the Egyptian Temple,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 31 (2004): 97-107.
“Some Neglected Aspects of Egypt's Conversion to Christianity,” in Coptic Culture: Past, Present and Future, ed. Maryam Ayad (Stevenage: The Coptic Orthodox Church Centre, 2012), 43-55.
“The Structure of Lamp Divination,” Acts of the Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies, CNI Publications 27 (Copenhagen: Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, 2002), 207-18.
“Towards an Interpretation of Hypocephali,” “Le lotus qui sort du terre”: Mélanges offerts à Edith Varga, Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément-2001 (Budapest: Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 2001), 325-334.
“The Use of the Daily Temple Liturgy in the Book of the Dead,” in Totenbuch-Forschungen: Gesammelte Beiträge des 2. Internationalen Totenbuch-Symposiums, Bonn, 25. bis 29. September 2005, ed. Burkhard Backes, Irmtraut Munro and Simone Stöhr (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007), 73-86.
“Were Egyptian Texts Divinely Written?” Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists, ed. Jean-Claude Goyon and Christine Cardin, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 150 (Leuven: Peeters, 2007), 807-813.
Other:
“Did the Old Kingdom Collapse? A New View of the First Intermediate Period,” in Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom: Perspectives on the Pyramid Age, ed. Peter Der Manuelian and Thomas Schneider (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2015), 60-75.
“Egypt, Ancient, I. History and Civilization, D. Archaeology,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception: 7. Dress-Essene Gate (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), 7:475-479.
“Egypt, Ancient, I. History and Civilization, H. Culture and Arts,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception: 7. Dress-Essene Gate (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), 7:491-495.
“Egypt, Ancient, I. History and Civilization, A. History,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception: 7. Dress-Essene Gate (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), 7:467-471.
“Egypt, Ancient, I. History and Civilization, E. Texts,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception: 7. Dress-Essene Gate (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013), 7:479-483.
“Egyptian Society during the Twenty-sixth Dynasty,” in Glimpses of Lehi’s Jerusalem, ed. John W. Welch, David P. Seely, and JoAnn Seely (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2004), 277-98.
“Egyptologists’ Fallacies: Fallacies Arising from Limited Evidence,” Journal of Egyptian History 3/1 (2010): 137-58.
“Fronted Adverbials,” Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 18 (2009): 83-90.
“Horos Son of Osoroeris,” in Mélanges offerts à Ola el-Aguizy, ed. Fayza Haikal (Caire: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 2015), 169-178.
“The Origin of the Imperfect Converter,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 43 (2007): 253-59.
“Overlooked Evidence for Sesostris III’s Foreign Policy,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 41 (2004): 23-31.
“Sꜣ mi nn: A Temporary Conclusion,” Göttinger Miszellen 202 (2004): 55-58.
