26: Book of the Dead IV

Papers due Tuesday April 22 at beginning of class


Last time: ended with chapter 175 (not dying again)

Chapter 125A: introduction to major section
Hall of Two Truths/Double Truth/Ma'at

Anubis

Chapter 125:
Hall of Two Truths/Double Truth/Ma'at

"negative confessions"/declarations of innocence

Ani addresses the gods

judges

Ani's declarations of innocence

Declarations of innocence

Egyptian moral code (in negative)

How innocent was Ani (and did it matter)?

Little recapitulation of judgment scene:
Two "truths"/Ma'ats
Ani and Osiris

Anubis, the scale and Ammit
Thoth records the verdict
Doors.

Chapter 42:
Identification of Ani's body parts with gods

"True-of-voice" Ani composed of gods/parts

Rubric to 125, "Lake of Fire"

Amulets: Djed pillar, Tyet (Isis knot), heart, pillow

Chapter 151: Ani in the embalming chamber

Chapter 110: The Afterlife

The Field of Offerings

Provisioning the dead

cattle for oars
beef

More praise of Osiris Wennefer

Illustration:
Sokar-Osiris

Final text: praise of Hathor

Hippopotamus goddess Taweret

Cow of Hathor

Tomb of Ani


From Book of the Dead to paper about the Book of the Dead….

Paper Assignment

Write a 2000-2500 word paper about the sequence of
Book of Coming Forth by Day/Book of the Dead chapters
from the papyrus of Ani found in plates 5-6 of the textbook. 

Discuss how the chapters relate to all of the following questions:

•What does this particular section tell us about Egyptian beliefs concerning death and the afterlife, and what does it tell us about funerary practice? That is, what does it tell us about what people thought versus what they did?

•What myths that we have covered in lectures and readings are alluded to in this section? 

•The interaction of text and image: how do the vignettes complement the text, how does the text explain the illustrations, are there places where text and image do not seem to go together?

•How does this section of the Book of the Dead relate to the other portions of the text that we have read or discussed for class?

Sources:

This is NOT a research paper: use notes,
lectures, and textbooks.

No need for outside sources.

No Budge books!

Stay off the internet….

Citation style:

You can cite textbooks by author’s name, page #

Example: Shafer 111-114

You may do this in-text (Shafer 111-114) or as footnotes.1

1Shafer 111-114

Citation style for myths, stories, etc.:

•If you are citing a myth or story in general, you
may just refer to it by title ("We remember that in the myth of the Destruction of Humanity, Re sent out his eye in the form of Hathor")

•If you are citing an author’s opinion on a myth or story, you should cite the author ("According to John Taylor (Taylor 125), the myth of Osiris is a parallel that the dead person hoped to follow…")

Academic integrity and the writing of papers

Plagiarism and how to avoid it

Typical paper pitfalls:

Underkill
•Paper as list
•Excessive spacing to fill pages
•Excessive quotations to fill pages
•Repetition

Overkill
•Overambitious papers
•Too fixated on a specific point
•Illegible fancy fonts….
•Multimedia extravaganzas….

A Good Paper:

•Answers the questions asked in narrative form
•Tells us what you have learned
•Tells us your informed ideas about what you’ve learned
•Is interesting for us to read
•Can be creative if you address the points above
•Is "mechanically" sound (legible, well-spelled, well-written)
•Has been edited and typewritten or printed
•Is handed in on time at the beginning of class on April 22