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...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 15 illus. |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9780812296402 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)531810 (OCoLC)1134074305 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Westerfeld, Jennifer Taylor, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination / Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019] ©2020 1 online resource (256 p.) : 15 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Note on Translations -- Introduction. Confronting Pharaonic Egypt in Late Antiquity -- Chapter 1. From Sign to Symbol in Roman Egypt -- Chapter 2. Hieroglyphs, Deep History, and Biblical Chronology -- Chapter 3. Encoding the Wisdom of Egypt -- Chapter 4. Laws for Murdering Men's Souls -- Chapter 5. Translating Hieroglyphs, Constructing Authority -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Subject Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) Archaeology and religion. Christian literature, Early History and criticism. Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Egyptian language Writing, Hieroglyphic. HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt. bisacsh Ancient Studies. Archaeology. Classics. Cultural Studies. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English 9783110610765 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 9783110664232 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2019 English 9783110610093 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2019 9783110605945 ZDB-23-DGD Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110690446 print 9780812251579 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296402 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812296402 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812296402.jpg |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Westerfeld, Jennifer Taylor, Westerfeld, Jennifer Taylor, |
spellingShingle |
Westerfeld, Jennifer Taylor, Westerfeld, Jennifer Taylor, Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Note on Translations -- Introduction. Confronting Pharaonic Egypt in Late Antiquity -- Chapter 1. From Sign to Symbol in Roman Egypt -- Chapter 2. Hieroglyphs, Deep History, and Biblical Chronology -- Chapter 3. Encoding the Wisdom of Egypt -- Chapter 4. Laws for Murdering Men's Souls -- Chapter 5. Translating Hieroglyphs, Constructing Authority -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Subject Index -- Acknowledgments |
author_facet |
Westerfeld, Jennifer Taylor, Westerfeld, Jennifer Taylor, |
author_variant |
j t w jt jtw j t w jt jtw |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author_sort |
Westerfeld, Jennifer Taylor, |
title |
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination / |
title_full |
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination / Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld. |
title_fullStr |
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination / Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld. |
title_full_unstemmed |
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination / Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld. |
title_auth |
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Note on Translations -- Introduction. Confronting Pharaonic Egypt in Late Antiquity -- Chapter 1. From Sign to Symbol in Roman Egypt -- Chapter 2. Hieroglyphs, Deep History, and Biblical Chronology -- Chapter 3. Encoding the Wisdom of Egypt -- Chapter 4. Laws for Murdering Men's Souls -- Chapter 5. Translating Hieroglyphs, Constructing Authority -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Subject Index -- Acknowledgments |
title_new |
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination / |
title_sort |
egyptian hieroglyphs in the late antique imagination / |
publisher |
University of Pennsylvania Press, |
publishDate |
2019 |
physical |
1 online resource (256 p.) : 15 illus. Issued also in print. |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Note on Translations -- Introduction. Confronting Pharaonic Egypt in Late Antiquity -- Chapter 1. From Sign to Symbol in Roman Egypt -- Chapter 2. Hieroglyphs, Deep History, and Biblical Chronology -- Chapter 3. Encoding the Wisdom of Egypt -- Chapter 4. Laws for Murdering Men's Souls -- Chapter 5. Translating Hieroglyphs, Constructing Authority -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Subject Index -- Acknowledgments |
isbn |
9780812296402 9783110610765 9783110664232 9783110610093 9783110605945 9783110690446 9780812251579 |
era_facet |
Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. |
url |
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296402 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812296402 https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812296402.jpg |
illustrated |
Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
400 - Language |
dewey-tens |
490 - Other languages |
dewey-ones |
493 - Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic languages |
dewey-full |
493.1 |
dewey-sort |
3493.1 |
dewey-raw |
493.1 |
dewey-search |
493.1 |
doi_str_mv |
10.9783/9780812296402 |
oclc_num |
1134074305 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT westerfeldjennifertaylor egyptianhieroglyphsinthelateantiqueimagination |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)531810 (OCoLC)1134074305 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2019 English Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2019 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
is_hierarchy_title |
Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English |
_version_ |
1806143387417444352 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>05901nam a22008175i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9780812296402</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20210621102733.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">210621t20192020pau fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780812296402</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.9783/9780812296402</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)531810</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1134074305</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">pau</subfield><subfield code="c">US-PA</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">HIS002030</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">493.1</subfield><subfield code="2">23</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Westerfeld, Jennifer Taylor, </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination /</subfield><subfield code="c">Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Philadelphia : </subfield><subfield code="b">University of Pennsylvania Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2019]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©2020</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (256 p.) :</subfield><subfield code="b">15 illus.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Abbreviations -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Note on Translations -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Introduction. Confronting Pharaonic Egypt in Late Antiquity -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 1. From Sign to Symbol in Roman Egypt -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 2. Hieroglyphs, Deep History, and Biblical Chronology -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 3. Encoding the Wisdom of Egypt -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 4. Laws for Murdering Men's Souls -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Chapter 5. Translating Hieroglyphs, Constructing Authority -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Notes -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Bibliography -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index Locorum -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Subject Index -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Acknowledgments</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="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.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="530" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Issued also in print.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Archaeology and religion.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Christian literature, Early</subfield><subfield code="x">History and criticism.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Church history</subfield><subfield code="y">Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="0"><subfield code="a">Egyptian language</subfield><subfield code="x">Writing, Hieroglyphic.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Ancient Studies.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Archaeology.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Classics.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="653" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Cultural Studies.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110610765</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110664232</subfield><subfield code="o">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2019 English</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110610093</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2019</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110605945</subfield><subfield code="o">ZDB-23-DGD</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2020</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110690446</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">print</subfield><subfield code="z">9780812251579</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296402</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812296402</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812296402.jpg</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-061009-3 EBOOK PACKAGE Classical Studies 2019 English</subfield><subfield code="b">2019</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-061076-5 EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English</subfield><subfield code="b">2019</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-069044-6 University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2020</subfield><subfield code="b">2020</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_CL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_CL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA11SSHE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA13ENGE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA17SSHEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA5EBK</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DGD</subfield><subfield code="b">2019</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="b">2019</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |