Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination / / Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld.
Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians an...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Abbreviations -- |t Note on Translations -- |t Introduction. Confronting Pharaonic Egypt in Late Antiquity -- |t Chapter 1. From Sign to Symbol in Roman Egypt -- |t Chapter 2. Hieroglyphs, Deep History, and Biblical Chronology -- |t Chapter 3. Encoding the Wisdom of Egypt -- |t Chapter 4. Laws for Murdering Men's Souls -- |t Chapter 5. Translating Hieroglyphs, Constructing Authority -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index Locorum -- |t Subject Index -- |t Acknowledgments |
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520 | |a Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority of the population, hieroglyphs possessed a potent symbolic value that went beyond their capacity to render language visible. For nearly three thousand years, the hieroglyphic script remained closely bound to indigenous notions of religious and cultural identity.By the late antique period, literacy in hieroglyphs had been almost entirely lost. However, the monumental temples and tombs that marked the Egyptian landscape, together with the hieroglyphic inscriptions that adorned them, still stood as inescapable reminders that Christianity was a relatively new arrival to the ancient land of the pharaohs. In Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination, Jennifer Westerfeld argues that depictions of hieroglyphic inscriptions in late antique Christian texts reflect the authors' attitudes toward Egypt's pharaonic past. Whether hieroglyphs were condemned as idolatrous images or valued as a source of mystical knowledge, control over the representation and interpretation of hieroglyphic texts constituted an important source of Christian authority.Westerfeld examines the ways in which hieroglyphs are deployed in the works of Eusebius and Augustine, to debate biblical chronology; in Greek, Roman, and patristic sources, to claim that hieroglyphs encoded the mysteries of the Egyptian priesthood; and in a polemical sermon by the fifth-century monastic leader Shenoute of Atripe, to argue that hieroglyphs should be destroyed lest they promote a return to idolatry. She argues that, in the absence of any genuine understanding of hieroglyphic writing, late antique Christian authors were able to take this powerful symbol of Egyptian identity and manipulate it to serve their particular theological and ideological ends. | ||
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588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) | |
650 | 0 | |a Archaeology and religion. | |
650 | 0 | |a Christian literature, Early |x History and criticism. | |
650 | 0 | |a Church history |y Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. | |
650 | 0 | |a Egyptian language |x Writing, Hieroglyphic. | |
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653 | |a Ancient Studies. | ||
653 | |a Archaeology. | ||
653 | |a Classics. | ||
653 | |a Cultural Studies. | ||
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