Abortion : b Christisn Understanding and Response

Grand Rapids260 p.; 23 c

Egyptian Idea of Canon in Literature and Some Possible Implications for Hebrew Scribal Traditions and the Writing of the Torah

This paper will explore Egyptian scribal tradition and the idea of canon. Principally, canonical texts are those that continue to be copied and used over centuries of time. What made these pieces of literature, like the Story of Sinuhe and Wisdom texts like Ptahhotep, worthy of continued use over centuries of time? Similarly with funerary texts, some Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts spells continued to be copied and edited in subsequent period that span more than a millennium after in the Book of the Dead. This study will examine some of these texts to see how they were transmitted and to what extent they were accurately transmitted. It is evident that canonical texts were not arbitrarily altered, rather every effort was made by Egyptian scribes to preserve documents with only minimal updating being made and in some cases, glosses were offered to explain archaic words or obscure religious terms to later audiences. I contend that this same care for texts was also adopted by Hebrew writers and scribes in the transmitting of biblical books, especially the Torah

Israel in Egypt : The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition

Oxfordxviii, 244 p.; 24 cm

New Light on the Amarna Period from North Sinai

Since 1999 investigations at Tell el-Borg in North Sinai have uncovered significant material from the Amarna period. In addition to pottery from this period, several wine jar seals and other small objects mention the names of members of the royal family of Akhetaten. Particularly interesting is a seal impression with the cartouche of Neferneferuaten followed by the epithet Akhetenhyes, adding a further occurrence to the dossier of this enigmatic royal figure

New Archaeological Evidence for Ancient Bedouin (Shas u) on Egypt’s Eas tern Frontier at Tell el-Borg. Ägypten und Levante|Ägypten und Levante XXVI 26|

Excavations at the military site of Tell el-Borg, just outside of the eastern Delta has produced two New Kingdom forts that were a part of the East Frontier defense system and the military highway, the Ways of Horus. Among the discoveries at Tell el-Borg were the burnt out remains of a cluster of reed huts. This study will investigate who the occupants of these huts may have been. The pottery and C14 dates suggest that these structures were used in the 2nd Intermediate Period to early New Kingdom. It will be argued provisionally that the occupants of this little community were dessert dwellers, possibly Shasu