Jacco Dieleman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Egyptology
Office: 394 Humanities
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511
310.206.1396 - phone
310.206.6456 - fax
dieleman@humnet.ucla.edu
Research Interests
Currently I am preparing a critical edition with analysis of Papyrus Vienna ÄS 3871, a funerary liturgy in hieratic and Demotic of Ptolemaic date. It contains a number of Osirian transfiguration spells and a reworked version of a navigation ritual performed in the month of Tybi. The document was used for the burial of a woman with the name Artemis.
Together with Ian Moyer of Pomona College I am writing the chapter on Demotic and Greco-Egyptian literature for Blackwell’s Companion to Hellenistic Literature (James Clauss and Martine Cuypers eds.), which is due to appear in 2007. This research will eventually lead to a study on aspects of continuity and change in Egyptian literature of the Late and Greco-Roman periods.
My interest in the esoteric sciences (magic, astrology, alchemy) has led me to amulet books and astrological handbooks. Together with the Center for Digital Humanities at UCLA I am preparing a web-based publication of a number of amulet books. After finishing the above mentioned critical edition of pVienna ÄS 3871, I will embark on preparing an edition of several astrological handbooks from the National Library in Vienna.
Education
| 1999 - 2003 | Ph.D. program, Leiden University, the Netherlands dissertation: “Reading Magic: social and cultural contexts of two Demotic-Greek magical handbooks” (awarded cum laude) |
| 1998 - 1999 | Post- graduate studies in the social sciences (Advanced Master’s Program), Leiden University, the Netherlands (awarded cum laude) |
| 1997 - 1998 | Post- graduate studies at the Egyptological Institute of Würzburg University, Germany |
| 1993 - 1997 | M.A. program, Comparative Literature, Leiden University, the Netherlands |
| 1992 - 1997 | M.A. program, Egyptology, Leiden University, the Netherlands |
Awards and Scholarships
| 2002 | First prize Basler ägyptologischer Nachwuchspreis |
| 2002 | Travel Scholarship of Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research for research and study at the University of Chicago |
| 1998 | VSB post-graduate abroad Scholarship for study at Würzburg University |
Monographs:
- De Wereld in Evenwicht. Goden en Mensen in het Oude Egypte (Amsterdam University Press; Amsterdam 2006). [The World in Balance. Gods and Men in Ancient Egypt – an introduction to ancient Egyptian religion]
- Priests, Tongues, and Rites. The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual (100-300 CE) (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World - RGRW 153; Brill Academic Publishers; Leiden 2005).
Reviews:- Lynn LiDonnici, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.09.25 http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-09-25.html
- Nikolaos Lazaridis, Sehepunkte 5 (2005) http://www.sehepunkte.de/2005/12/8305.html
- Youri Volokhine, Numen – International Review for the History of Religions 53 (2006) 385-92.
- Michèle Broze, Chronique d’Égypte 160 (2007)
Articles:
- “A Coptic Magical Text from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Ostracon LACMA MA 80.202.214” Coptica 5 (2006) 17-28.
- “A Bilingual Account From Late Ptolemaic Tebtunis” Zeitschrift für Altägyptische Sprache 133 (2006) 56-65. [co-authored with Brian Muhs]
- “Abundance in the Margins - multiplicity of script in the Demotic Magical Papyri”, in: Seth Sanders (ed.), Margins of Writing, Origins of Culture. New Approaches to Writing and Reading in the Ancient Near East (Oriental Institute Seminars 2; Oriental Institute; Chicago 2006) 67-81.
- “Ein spätägyptisches magisches Handbuch: eine neue PDM oder PGM?”, in: F. Hoffmann and H.J. Thissen (eds.), Res Severa Verum Gaudium. Festschrift Zauzich, (Studia Demotica 6; Peeters Publishers; Leuven 2004) 121-28.
- “Miniaturization and the Opening of the Mouth in a Greek Magical Text (PGM XII.270-350)” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 3 (2003) 47-72. [co-authored with Ian Moyer]
- “Claiming the stars – Egyptian Priests facing the Sky”, in: Susanne Bickel and Antonio Loprieno (eds.), Basel Egyptology Prize 1. Junior Research in Egyptian History, Archaeology, and Philology (Aegyptiaca Helvetica 17; Basel 2003) 277-89.
- “Stars and the Egyptian Priesthood in the Greco-Roman Period”, in: Scott B. Noegel, Joel Walker and Brannon M. Wheeler (eds.), Prayer, Magic and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World (Pennsylvania State University Press 2003) 137-53.
- “Fear of Women. Representations of Women in Demotic Wisdom Texts” Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 25 (1998) 7-46.
