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Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales

, 2016
In Orality and Literacy in the Demotic Tales, Jacqueline E. Jay extrapolates from the surviving ancient Egyptian written record hints of the oral tradition that must have run alongside it.
Jay, Jacqueline E.
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Greek, demotic and Coptic papyri and ostraca in the Leiden Papyrological Institute

, 2023
This volume contains the first edition of 66 papyri and ostraca in the collection of the Leiden Papyrological Institute. The texts are dated between the third century BCE and the eighth century CE and originate from Egypt.
Stolk, J.V., Hoogendijk, F.A.J.
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The Demise of the Demotic Document: When and why

, 1993
The decline of the Demotic business document after the Roman annexation of Egypt is attributed to the legal and administrative exclusivity of Greek under the new regime.
Naphtali Lewis
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Shrines of Goa: Iconographic Formation and Popular Appeal

South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2018
Religious shrines in Goa (India), both Hindu and Catholic, are marked by notable differences. Shrines in temples and churches are distinguished from wayside shrines by their formalized iconography and elite patronization.
Alexander Henn
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Ordinary people and the media: The demotic turn

, 2010
“An outstanding intervention in contemporary debates about the emancipatory potential of the new media landscape. While “power to the people” may be the rallying cry in an age of blogging, Web 2.0 interactivity, and reality TV, Turner cautions against ...
Turner, Graeme
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Possessive Constructions in Egyptian and Coptic. Distribution, definiteness, and the construct state phenomenon [PDF]

, 2010
In this paper, the distribution of Coptic possessive constructions is defined in terms of syntactic constraints: the construction involving the linking element N- requires the obligatory (and simple) definiteness of the possessed noun as well as the ...
Egedi, Barbara, Barbara Egedi
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Transmitting Literature, Preserving Language. Case Studies of Classical Latin from Literary Manuscripts from the Roman East (I bc–II ad)1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 463-478, November 2024.
Abstract This paper aims to provide a critical survey of classical Latin literature—with a few insights into slightly later (i.e. Augustan or early imperial) literature—as transmitted in ancient manuscripts dating prior to the third century, i.e.
Maria Chiara Scappaticcio
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Devenir dieu dans l’Égypte ptolémaïque : une analyse conjointe du vocabulaire grec et égyptien dans les titres des souverains lagides

Mythos
This article examines the epithets used for Ptolemaic rulers with particular regard to the terms ‘gods’ and ‘goddesses’. To provide an overview of all the documentation, the analysis includes denominations both in Greek and Egyptian (hieroglyphic and ...
Stefano G. Caneva, Giuseppina Lenzo
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Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic

The Modern Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 6, Page 1393-1421, November 2024.
British constitutional thought tends to understand sovereignty in legalistic terms, with the concept often equated with the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty. As Loughlin and Tierney have recently argued, this approach obscures the political considerations which undergird the legal precept. In this article we argue that this approach misses a third,
Illan Wall, Daniel Matthews
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Neues zur Einordnung von Hebr 13,20-21 hinsichtlich der Gattung und der Funktion

Protokolle zur Bibel, 2016
In this article I will compare Heb 13:20–21 with some Greek and Demotic texts that show similarities with Heb 13:20–21. These parallels will allow me to ratiocinate about the type of text and the function of Heb 13:20–21.
Christian-Jürgen Gruber
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