Add to ORKGWord play has long been acknowledged as a common feature in ancient Egyptian texts. This article offers an examination of word play in one divinatory text: the Ramesside Dream Manual (P.Chester Beatty III, r. 1-11). While scholars have noted some examples of word play in conjunction with sociological and philological analyses of the Dream Manual, the phenomenon has not been studied in depth. This investigation offers a typology for word play in the Dream Manual by examining it in the light of ancient Near Eastern word play generally. It also provides an inventory of and commentary on the relevant passages that contain word plays and an analysis of the various functions the device has in the Manual. It is the authors' hope that the study wil...
In this dissertation, the author advocates for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of dramati...
The nature of the Egyptian texts has been understood as pure written compositions - written to be re...
The Greek Anthology is a collection of Greek poetry compiled by Constantine Cephalas during the 10th...
This contribution is dedicated to Egyptian plays on words with the god name “Imn“ “Amon“. In previou...
This thesis is a study of dream books from ancient Egypt, that is, manuals used for the practice of...
This contribution continues the author´s investigations of Egyptian plays on words. The concrete cas...
The emphasis of this article is on Egyptian plays on words with “ib” “heart”. There are eight differ...
A large part of the military terms attested during the Ramesside Period, being written in ‘group-wri...
This paper explores the rise of dream interpretation in Egypt's Ramesside Age against the social and...
Annotation: This thesis is focused on curses, i. e. specific magical texts used in old Egypt, and ap...
Against the general background of a terminological confusion that is present in contributions about ...
Annotation: This thesis is focused on curses, i. e. specific magical texts used in old Egypt, and ap...
(in English): This thesis deals with an Egyptian literary piece known under its modern name The Prop...
Since the discovery of REM-sleep, modern empirical dream research has made considerable advances in ...
This study deals with conceptions and practices related to dreams in early rabbinic Judaism. One asp...
In this dissertation, the author advocates for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of dramati...
The nature of the Egyptian texts has been understood as pure written compositions - written to be re...
The Greek Anthology is a collection of Greek poetry compiled by Constantine Cephalas during the 10th...
This contribution is dedicated to Egyptian plays on words with the god name “Imn“ “Amon“. In previou...
This thesis is a study of dream books from ancient Egypt, that is, manuals used for the practice of...
This contribution continues the author´s investigations of Egyptian plays on words. The concrete cas...
The emphasis of this article is on Egyptian plays on words with “ib” “heart”. There are eight differ...
A large part of the military terms attested during the Ramesside Period, being written in ‘group-wri...
This paper explores the rise of dream interpretation in Egypt's Ramesside Age against the social and...
Annotation: This thesis is focused on curses, i. e. specific magical texts used in old Egypt, and ap...
Against the general background of a terminological confusion that is present in contributions about ...
Annotation: This thesis is focused on curses, i. e. specific magical texts used in old Egypt, and ap...
(in English): This thesis deals with an Egyptian literary piece known under its modern name The Prop...
Since the discovery of REM-sleep, modern empirical dream research has made considerable advances in ...
This study deals with conceptions and practices related to dreams in early rabbinic Judaism. One asp...
In this dissertation, the author advocates for an interdisciplinary approach to the study of dramati...
The nature of the Egyptian texts has been understood as pure written compositions - written to be re...
The Greek Anthology is a collection of Greek poetry compiled by Constantine Cephalas during the 10th...