OGDEN GOELET Ph.D. 1982, Columbia University Associate Research Scholar of Middle Eastern Studies Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 50 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 tel: (212) 998-8894 fax: (212) 995-4689 e-mail: og1@nyu.edu

Although my graduate training in Egyptology at Columbia was focussed primarily on political and administrative history, today I find myself working more with ancient Egyptian culture on a broader basis, particularly its religion and history. Perhaps the challenge of understanding a civilization so radically different from our modern Western world is perhaps seen best in the paradox that the Egyptians were a greatly pious people yet had no word corresponding to our term "religion." The Egyptians created a complex culture, in which there was no distinction between writing and art, so that the study of any text must include some art-historical or archaeological analysis as well. Conceptual problems such as these led me to approach Egyptian texts in a more 'object-oriented' fashion relating the entire context of the document -- a stela, papyrus or tomb inscription -- to the lexicograaphical problems inherent in that text and in whatever other documents to which it might be related. I am particularly interested in the Old Kingdom and Ramesside Periods, whose international aspects often leads me to work with my colleagues in the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and the Institute of Fine Arts.

• "The Anaphoric Style in Egyptian Hymnody," The Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 28 (2002) 75-89 [Alan R. Schulman Memorial Volume]
• "The Migratory Geese of Meidum and some Egyptian Terms for 'Migratory Bird'," Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar 5, (1983) 41-60
• "Introduction" and "Commentary" in The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day (San Francisco, 1994)
• "Nudity in Ancient Egypt," Source Notes in the History of Art, 12,2 (Winter 1993) 20-31. This article has been enlarged into a monograph to be published in Nudity in the Ancient World by the University of Texas Press
• "A new 'Robbery' Papyrus: Rochester MAG 51.346.1," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 82 (1996), 107-127
• "Making Peace on Heaven and on Earth. Religious and Legal Aspects of the Treaty between Ramesses II and Hattusilis III. 1. The Egyptian Version," an article published jointly with Prof. Baruch A. Levine, to appear in the Cyrus Gordon Festschrift

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