Rita Lucarelli is Associate Professor of Egyptology at UC Berkeley and Faculty Curator of Egyptology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley and Fellow of the Digital Humanities in Berkeley. She worked as a Research Scholar and a Lecturer at the Department of Egyptology of Bonn University, where she was part of the team of the "Book of the Dead Project". She is presently working at a project aiming at realizing 3D models of ancient Egyptian coffins, the "Book of the Dead in 3D". She is also completing a new monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt entitled Agents of Punishment and Protection: Ancient Egyptian Demonology in the First Millenium BCE, and she is one of the coordinators of the international project "Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project", or "Demon Things."

Martin Andreas Stadler is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Würzburg. He taught as acting professor at the University of Tübingen in 2009/10, and was visiting professor in Paris 2015. His principal research interests are Egyptian funerary art, demotic literature and Egyptian Religion, including the Ptolemaic-Roman era studying whether and how the Egyptians maintained their cultural identity during the periods of Greek and Roman governance.

• Introduction


• I The Textual History of the Book of the Dead


• 1. From the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts to the Book of the Dead


• Louise Gestermann


• 2. The Book of the Dead in the 18th Dynasty


• Irmtraut Munro


• 3. The Ramesside Book of the Dead and the Deir el-Medina tradition


• Barbara Lüscher


• 4. The Book of the Dead in the Third Intermediate Period


• Giuseppina Lenzo


• 5. The Book of the Dead in the 25th/26th Dynasty


• Svenja Gülden


• 6. The Last Books of the Dead


• Florence Albert


• II Types of Sources: the Material Aspect of the Book of the Dead


• 7. Scribes and writing traditions


• Ursula Verhoeven-van Elsbergen


• 8. Production and layout of the Book of the Dead papyri


• Ogend Goelet


• 9. The Female owners of the Book of the Dead


• Susanne Töpfer


• 10. The Book of the Dead on tissue and mummy bandages


• Annie Gasse


• 11. The Book of the Dead in tombs


• Silvia Einaudi


• 12. The Book of the Dead in temples


• Holger Kockelmann


• III The Book of the Dead's Position in Ancient Egyptian Religion


• 13. The Book of the Dead as a source for the study of ancient Egyptian religion: methodology, problems, prospects


• Martin Andreas Stadler


• 14. The Funerary Literature Related to the Book of the Dead


• Foy Scalf


• 15. The Book of the Dead in the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods and the contemporary funerary texts


• Andrea Kucharek


• 16. The Book of the Ba


• Andrea Kucharek


• IV Particular Aspects of the Book of the Dead's Contents


• 17. Thematic groups and sequences of spells


• Felicitas Weber


• 18. Spell 1 of the Book of the Dead and its Vignette


• Tarek Tawfik


• 19. The Field of Offering/Field of Reeds


• Milagros Álvarez Sosa


• 20. The Judgement over The Final Judgement


• Jirí Janák


• 21. The so-called "Chapitres supplémentaires"


• Annik Wüthrich


• 22. Vignettes


• Malcolm Mosher


• V The Book of the Dead in Modern Times


• 23. The time of the pioneers


• Barbara Lüscher


• 24. Modern Reception


• Aris Legowski


• 25. Translating the Book of the Dead


• Burkhard Backes


• 26. Conservation and Restoration of a Book of the Dead Roll


• Myriam Krutzsch


• 27. Choat, Forgeries of the Book of the Dead


• Rita Lucarelli