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The late Professor Sarah Groll, a student of the linguist Hans-Jakob Polotsky and of the
Egyptologist Jaroslav Cerny, founded the Department of Egyptology at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which became an international centre for
the study of Ramesside texts. She had already shown her interest in the
characteristics of the language of ancient Egyptian legal texts in 1984
with her paper “A Short Grammar of the Spermeru Dialect.” in
Studien zu Sprache und Religion Ägyptens: Feschrift W. Westendorf, ed. F.
Junge. I, 41-61. Göttingen: Hubert & Co.
* Dr. Arlette David (faculty profile), LLM from the Université
Libre de Bruxelles and Ph.D. in Egyptology from the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, studies the legal registers of Ramesside documents, the
classifiers used in their legal lexicon, and the metaphorical processes
at the basis of ancient Egyptian legal categories:
2004. Analyse du discours juridique dans les décrets royaux
ramessides. Göttinger Miszellen 199: 31-44.
2006. Syntactic and Lexico-Semantic
Aspects of the Legal Register in Ramesside
Royal Decrees.
GOF IV. Reihe Ägypten 38. Classification and Categorization in
Ancient Egypt 5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
2007.
Ancient Egyptian
Forensic Metaphors and Categories. Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und
Altertumskunde 134, 1-14.
2008. The Sound of the Magic Flute in Legal and
Religious Registers of the Ramesside Period:
Some Common Features of Two "Ritualistic Languages". In Law and Religion
in the Eastern Mediterranean, eds. R. Kratz
& A. Hagedorn. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, forthcoming.
She is also the moderator
of the Ancient Law Forum Group and one of the creators of the Israeli
Forum for the Research in Legal History of the Ancient and Pre-Industrial
World.
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