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 Dead1. From the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts to the Book of the DeadLouise Gestermann 2. The Book of the Dead in the 18th DynastyIrmtraut Munro 3. The Ramesside Book of the Dead and the Deir el-Medina traditionBarbara Lüscher 4. The Book of the Dead in the Third Intermediate PeriodGiuseppina Lenzo 5. The Book of the Dead in the 25th/26th DynastySvenja Gülden 6. The Last Books of the DeadFlorence Albert II Types of Sources: the Material Aspect of the Book of the Dead7. Scribes and writing traditionsUrsula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen 8. Production and layout of the Book of the Dead papyriOgend Goelet 9. The Female owners of the Book of the DeadSusanne Töpfer 10. The Book of the Dead on tissue and mummy bandagesAnnie Gasse 11. The Book of the Dead in tombsSilvia Einaudi 12. The Book of the Dead in templesHolger Kockelmann III The Book of the Dead's Position in Ancient Egyptian Religion13. The Book of the Dead as a source for the study of ancient Egyptian religion: methodology, problems, prospectsMartin Andreas Stadler 14. The Funerary Literature Related to the Book of the DeadFoy Scalf 15. The Book of the Dead in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods and the contemporary funerary textsAndrea Kucharek 16. The Book of the BaAndrea Kucharek IV Particular Aspects of the Book of the Dead's Contents17. Thematic groups and sequences of spellsFelicitas Weber 18. Spell 1 of the Book of the Dead and its VignetteTarek Tawfik 19. The Field of Offering/Field of ReedsMilagros Álvarez Sosa 20. The Judgement over The Final JudgementJirí Janák 21. The so-called "Chapitres supplémentaires"Annik Wüthrich 22. VignettesMalcolm Mosher V The Book of the Dead in Modern Times23. The time of the pioneersBarbara Lüscher 24. Modern ReceptionAris Legowski 25. Translating the Book of the DeadBurkhard Backes 26. Conservation and Restoration of a Book of the Dead RollMyriam Krutzsch 27. Choat, Forgeries of the Book of the DeadRita Lucarelli