Books in the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections series

Ten papers presented at a conference held at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2019. The Kingdom of Kush has played an important and controversial role in the development of Black studies, the discourse of Afrocentrism, and in considering asymmetries in the racial discourse surrounding Egypt in particular and Africa more generally.

The contributions in this volume include studies on the cultural and environmental impact of the Nile on the people of Egypt, the authors using palaeoclimatic and geomorphological data to examine and challenge traditional approaches to the study of the Egyptian environment.

The papers collected in this special issue of Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections address some aspects of the interactions that took place during Egypt's 300-year Ptolemaic period and its subsequent annexation by Rome. The era of the Greek pharaohs and their Imperial Roman successors was just as remarkable as that of the pharaohs of old.

This contributed volume presents a broad array of manifestations given to demons in Ancient Egypt through iconography, objects, or textual descriptions. The contributors explore the range and variation of the entities that the ancient Egyptians believed were capable of harm and help.

Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections Volume 10 (2016) present papers by his colleagues in tribute to the career of David Soren, Regents Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona and Director of the Orvieto Institute in Umbria, Italy.

The relationships between ancient Egypt and other cultures transcend time, so in this volume of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Volume 8 (2016) the reader will find a sampling of the diverse ways in which these have manifested.

Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections Volume 6.1 (2014) focuses on Nubia. Guest edited by Professor Stuart Tyson Smith, University of California Santa Barbara.

This special issue of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections(7.3, 2015) is dedicated to Professor Nanno Marinatos of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ten manuscripts authored by some of the most prominent members of their fields are well illustrated in full colour.

Volume 18 of the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections presents the proceedings of a workshop held at the University of Lausanne on April 22-23, 2015, to explore the Egypt-Bible interface within this chronological constraint, and methodological ones as well. 20 illustrations, some colour.

Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Volume 12 contains papers given at University of Basel in Switzerland in August 2015 looking at the mobility of people and commodities in the Eastern Mediterranean Region in the 8th to 6th centuries BC. 10 col and 20 b&w illus. and tables.

The second millennium BCE in the ancient Near East saw increased interactions and interconnections between Egypt and the regions of the southern Levant. The essays in this volume explore these interconnections.