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  • God's Wife, God's Servant

    The God's Wife of Amun (ca.740–525 BC)

    by Mariam F. Ayad ...
    Mariam F. Ayad explores how five women were elevated to a position of supreme religious authority. Drawing on a variety of textual, iconographic, and archaeological evidence, and containing fifty-one black and white and colour illustrations, the volume discusses this often neglected subject, placing the women within the broader context of the politically volatile, turbulent seventh and eighth ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Women in Ancient Egypt

    Revisiting Power, Agency, and Autonomy

    Edited by Mariam F. Ayad ...
    Cutting-edge research by twenty-four international scholars on female power, agency, health, and literacy in ancient EgyptThere has been considerable scholarship in the last fifty years on the role of ancient Egyptian women in society. With their ability to work outside the home, inherit and dispense of property, initiate divorce, testify in court, and serve in local government, Egyptian women ... Read more

    $68.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Studies in Coptic Culture

    Transmission and Interaction

    Edited by Mariam Ayad ...
    Coptic contributions to the formative theological debates of Christianity have long been recognized. Less well known are other, equally valuable, Coptic contributions to the transmission and preservation of technical and scientific knowledge, and a full understanding of how Egypt's Copts survived and interacted with the country's majority population over the centuries. Studies in Coptic Culture ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coptic Culture and Community

    Daily Lives, Changing Times

    Edited by Mariam F. Ayad ...
    A wide-ranging exploration of the daily lives of ordinary Coptic Christians, from late Antiquity until todayThis volume brings together leading experts from a range of disciplines to examine aspects of the daily lived experiences of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority from late Antiquity to the present. In doing so, it serves as a supplement and a corrective to institutional or theological ... Read more

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  • A History of Ancient Egypt

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