Problems of canonicity and identity formation in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
By: edited by Kim Ryholt, Gojko Barjamovic
Contributors: Københavns universitet; Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia (Conference) (2010 : Copenhagen, Denmark); Literature and Identity Formation (Symposium) (2010 : Copenhagen, Denmark)
Series: CNI publications -- 43; CNI publications -- 43.
Publisher: Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen; Museum Tusculanum Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Copenhagen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9788763543729
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Egyptian literature; Congresses; History and criticism; Assyro-Babylonian literature; Group identity in literature; Literature and society; History; Literature; Cross-cultural studies; Canon (Literature)
Notes: "This volume publishes the papers from two conferences held at the Center for Canon and Identity Formation at the University of Copenhagen in 2010"--Front jacket flap.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English, with one contribution in French.
Table of contents: title: Sumerian Literature and Sumerian Identity  -- Jerrold S. Cooper; title: Literature and Identity in Mesopotamia during the Old Babylonian Period  -- Paul Delnero; title: Closed Canon vs. Creative Chaos : An In-Depth Look at (Real and Supposed) Mortuary Texts from Ancient Egypt  -- Alexandra von Lieven; title: Canonical motifs in the Neo-Assyrian royal inscriptions  -- Mario Liverani; title: The Last Stand? What remains Egyptian in Oxyrhynchus  -- Joachim Friedrich Quack; title: Who Writes the Literary in Late Middle Kingdom Lahun?  -- Stephen Quirke; title: "The Pen Promoted My Station" : Scholarship and Distinction in New Kingdom Biographies  -- Chloé Ragazzoli; title: King Petemenekh : New Kingdom Royal Sarcophagi Texts on a Private Coffin  -- Robert K. Ritner; title: Constructing Elite Group and Individual Identity within the Canon of 18th Dynasty Theban Tomb Chapel Decoration  -- Gay Robins; title: Canon and Power in Cuneiform Scribal Scholarship  -- Francesca Rochberg; title: The Inventions of Sumerian : Literature and the Artifacts of Identity  -- Gonzalo Rubio; title: A Babylonian Cosmopolis  -- Marc Van De Mieroop; title: L'écrit et la Canonicité dans la Civilisation Pharaonique -- Pascal Vernus.