Concepts in Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture: Proceedings of the Lady Wallis Budge Anniversary Symposium Held at Christ’s College, Cambridge, 22 January 2016

Concepts In Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture' Presents A Collection Of Archaeological And Philological Papers Discussing How Ancient Egyptians Thought, And Modern Scholars May Think, About Egyptian Funerary Practices Of The Early 2nd Millennium Bce. Targeting The Concepts Used By Modern Scholars, The Papers Address Both General Methodological Questions Of How Concepts Should Be Developed And Used And More Specific Ones About The History And Presuppositions Behind Particular Egyptological Concepts. In So Doing, The Volume Brings To The Fore Occasionally Problematic Intellectual Baggage That Have Hindered Understanding, As Well Highlighting New Promising Avenues Of Research In Ancient Egyptian Funerary Culture In The Middle Kingdom And More Broadly. Introduction : Egyptian And Egyptological Concepts / Rune Nyord -- Projection Of Self In Middle Kingdom Tombs And Coffins / Susanne Bickel -- The Concept Of 'letters To The Dead' And Egyptian Funerary Culture / Sylvie Donnat -- How 'royal' (and 'mythical') Are The Coffin Texts? Reflections On The Definition And Function Of Some Etic Concepts In A Middle Kingdom Funerary Text Corpus / Katja Goebs -- How 'funerary' Are The Coffin Texts? / Alexandra Von Lieven -- Burial Demography In The Late Middle Kingdom : A Social Perspective / Gianluca Miniaci -- The Concept Of Ka Between Egyptian And Egyptological Frameworks / Rune Nyord -- Who Am I? An Emic Approach To The So-called 'personal Texts' In Egyptian 'funerary Literature' / Harco Willems Edited By Rune Nyord. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes .