Permanence of Intellectual Creation through the Materiality of Stone: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Egyptian Book Culture

Chana Algarvio

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Page Range:: 240–261

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004723405_012

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This paper serves to reshape and redefine our understanding of books, challenging modern beliefs influenced by Western bias so that the field of Egyptology can unhesitatingly incorporate the topic of books and bibliography explicitly into scholarship. By employing the conceptual framework of book as idea noted in the field of Book History, and by explaining bibliographic models and cataloguing standards from the field of Library Science, interdisciplinary communication is sought to be fostered by demonstrating that a book cannot be understood nor defined by physical parameters. It instead must be defined by intellectual content since in its original state, a book is a metaphysical entity born from literary thought processes. Ancient Egyptian literary works found on stone—a substrate seldom discussed in Egyptology as a book medium—are used as a case study to solidify the need to understand books firstly as ideas, and secondly, ideas which can then be manifested into any physical form. The examination of the numerous literary genres found on a variety of stone forms throughout millennia ultimately demonstrates the fundamental importance this medium possessed in ancient Egyptian book culture, and that stone metaphysically carries books due to the practices of knowledge transmission.

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Looking beyond the Text

New Approaches to Scribal Culture and Practices in Ancient Egypt

丛编： Harvard Egyptological Studies, 卷： 27

ISBN:: 9789004723405

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 03 Feb 2024

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- Ancient Near East and Egypt
  - Egyptology

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Part 1 Social Contexts

Part 2 Education and Formation

Part 3 Writing Mechanics

Part 4 Scribal Materials

Part 5 Transmission and Reception

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African Studies	Education	Media Studies
American Studies	History	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Ancient Near East and Egypt	Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	Musicology
Art History	International Law	Philosophy
Asian Studies	International Relations	Religious Studies
Biblical Studies	Jewish Studies	Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Biology	Languages and Linguistics	Social Sciences
Book History and Cartography	Life Sciences	Theology and World Christianity
Classical Studies	Literature and Cultural Studies

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Chapter 10 Permanence of Intellectual Creation through the Materiality of Stone: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Egyptian Book Culture

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