Empty Threats? How Egyptians' Self-Ontology Should Affect the Way We Read Many Texts

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Permanent URL	http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/2078
Title	Empty Threats? How Egyptians' Self-Ontology Should Affect the Way We Read Many Texts
BYU Creator	Muhlestein, Kerry M.
Keywords	Threat-formulae; divine language; textual interpretation; charms; inscriptions
Description/Abstract	Egyptologists have typically divided texts into those that dealt with the divine and those that treated the mundane. This false dichotomy is not one that the Egyptians themselves would have imposed. They saw themselves as mortal beings that interacted with the divine realm and the afterlife. The texts they created reflect this understanding, and thus we are greatly hampered when we insist that the language of a decree, threat formula, or other texts, must refer to either the mundane or the supernatural, but not both. There is ample evidence that the Egyptians often intended specific wording to invoke multiple realms, by use of metaphoric and divine language, and by doing so they increased the efficacy of their texts. Without this understanding, we will misunderstand many of the texts we study.
Source	Empty Threats? How Egyptians' Self-Ontology Should Affect the Way We Read Many Texts,â€ in The Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 34 (2007): 115-130.;
Publisher	Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities
Date Original	2007
Language	English eng en
Publication Type	Articles
Type	Text
Format	application/pdf
Owning Institution	Brigham Young University
BYU College	Religious Education
BYU Department	Ancient Scripture
Copyright Status	(c) 2007 Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities;
Copyright Use Information	http://www.lib.byu.edu/generic_copyright.html

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