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Thursday, February 11, 2021

Review of Westerfeld, Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination (Chance E. Bonar).
Jennifer Taylor Westerfeld, Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination. Philadephia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
The focus of the book is Christian writers, but it also interacts with Greek, Roman, Hermetic, and Neo-Platonic writers. There is a chapter on the Coptic monastic leader Shenoute.

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