Notes on the Editors
Margaret Geoga
is an Egyptologist, formerly an adjunct lecturer in Egyptology at Brown University, where she also received a PhD in Egyptology and an MA in comparative literature. She specializes in the transmission and reception of ancient Egyptian literature, as well as the reception of ancient Egypt in eighteenth-century European literature. She is the author of several peer-reviewed journal articles and currently preparing a monograph based on her dissertation, “Receptions of a Middle Egyptian Poem: A Textual and Material Study of The Teaching of Amenemhat”. Her research interests include Egyptian philology, scribal culture, the history of Egyptology, reception studies, and translation studies.
John Steele
is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity in the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University. He is a historian of science who focuses on the history of astronomy, astrology, and related disciplines in Babylonia, and on the reception of Babylonian astronomy in other cultures. He is the author of several books including Observations and Predictions of Eclipse Times by Early Astronomers (2000), A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East (2008), Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Study of the Moon’s Motion (1691–1757) (2012), and Rising Time Schemes in Babylonian Astronomy (2017), and co-author with Hermann Hunger of The Babylonian Astronomical Compendium MUL.APIN (2019).