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Illuminating Osiris comprises twenty-seven articles by students, friends, and colleagues in honor of Mark Smith, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. Smith is especially renowned as a Demoticist and specialist in ancient Egyptian religion. His numerous Demotic text editions and translations of Egyptian funerary and religious compositions have been enormously influential in the field. The contributions in Illuminating Osiris naturally reflect Smith's particular interests in the religion and literature of Graeco-Roman period Egypt, dealing with cult, rituals, astronomy, and divination, among other subjects. The book includes many editions or reeditions of texts written in Demotic, Hieratic, and Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs. It is profusely illustrated and supplied with detailed indices.

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RICHARD JASNOW is Professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins University. He has authored A Late Period Hieratic Wisdom Text (P. Brooklyn 47.218.135) (The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1992) and The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth(Harrassowitz, 2005; with Karl-Theodor Zauzich). Jasnow's research focuses on Demotic texts of the Graeco-Roman period. GHISLAINE WIDMER is Maitre de conferences in Egyptology at the University of Lille. She is the author of Resurrection d'Osiris - Naissance d'Horus. Les papyrus Berlin P. 6750 et Berlin P. 8765 (Berlin, 2015). Her research focuses on Demotic script and religious texts of the Graeco-Roman period.

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