CURRICULUM VITAE AND PROFILE

CURRICULUM VITAE AND PROFILE

l. CURRICULUM VITAE

1.1 Personal Data and Professional Career

Born Stockholm, Sweden, December 3, 1943

Marital Status Married

High School Graduation (Classical languages, Østre Borgerdyd) 1962

Military Service 1962-1964, 1964-1970

B.A. in Assyriology (Bifagseksamen) 1968

M.A. (Magisterkonferens) 1972

Research Fellow 1972-1973

Assistant Professor 1973-1976

Associate Professor 1976-2007

Visiting scholar, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fall term 1978

Visiting scholar, Leiden University, Spring Term 1979

Guest Professor, Yale University, Spring Term 1989

Visiting scholar, Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Bruxelles 1993-1996

Guest Professor, Universität Wien, Spring Term 1995

Guest Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Fall Term 1999

Research Fellow, Danish Institute for Advanced Research in the Humanities

2003-2004

1.2 Awards and Evaluations

Awarded the gold medal of the University of Copenhagen in Østerlandsk Filologi

1971 Declared qualified for a chair in Egyptology in Copenhagen (Selection

Committee: Edwards, Hornung, Leclant, Nylander and Säve-Söderbergh)

1978 Declared qualified for a chair in Egyptology in Uppsala (Selection Committee:

Edwards, Hornung and Säve-Söderbergh)

1980

Declared qualified for a chair in Egyptology in Wien 1987

1.3 Education

Assyriology :

University of Copenhagen 1964-66 (Teacher: J. Læssøe) University of Oxford 1966-67 (Teacher: O. Gurney). Coptic: University of Copenhagen 1964-1966 (Teacher: W. Erichsen)

1967-70 (Teachers: H.J. Polotsky and S. Giversen).

Demotic: University of Copenhagen 1968 (Teacher: H.J. Polotsky). Egyptology: University of Copenhagen 1964-66 (Teacher: E. Iversen)

1967-72 (Teachers: H.J. Polotsky; E. Richter-Ærøe and J.R. Harris)

University of London 1965 (Teacher: H.S. Smith) University of Oxford 1966-67 (Teachers: J.W.B. Barns and

J.R. Harris)

Linguistics: University of Copenhagen 1968-69 (Teacher: J. Christensen).

1.4 Administrative Work

Director of the Carsten Niebuhr Institute 1977-1978;1984-1987

Deputy Director of the institute 1973-1977; 1983-1984;

1988-1989 Member of the Governing Board of the Faculty of Humanities 1977-1983;1989-1993 Member of the Research Committee of the Faculty of Humanities 1980-1983;1989-1991 Chairman of the Research Committee of the Faculty of Humanities 1989-1990 Member of the Research Grant and Fellowship Committee of the

Faculty of Humanities

1977-1980 Member of the Publication Grants Committee of the Faculty of

Humanities

1982-1994;1997-

Member of the Faculty Admission Committee 1977-1980

Member of the Studies Council 1972-1978;1979-1993;

1999-2001

Director of Examinations 1975-1978;1982-84;

1987-1989 Member of the Executive Committee of the Studies Council of the

Faculty of Humanities

1976-1977 Member of the Scholarship Committee of the University of

Copenhagen

1980-1981 Ph.D. - coordinator at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute 2001-2003 In addition to these activities I have served on numerous subcommittees as a member and a chairman.

In 2002, 2008 and 2009 I served as a member of an international evaluation committee under the auspices of the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (Högskoleverket).

1.5 Guest Lectures (Invited)

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia:

1978 The Prospective sdm.f and Historical Grammar. University of Groningen, The

Netherlands:

1979 Interconnections during the Egyptian New Kingdom.

University of Bergen, Norway: 1980 Stability and Transformation. Uppsala University, Sweden: 1984, 1985

and 1986:

15 lectures on linguistic topics. University of Helsinki,

Finland:

1987 Taboo in Ancient Egypt

University of Vienna, Austria: 1987: Zur Vorstellung von Tabu im alten Ägypten University of Würzburg,

Germany:

1987 Zur Vorstellung von Tabu im alten Ägypten University of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia

1989 Did the Ancient Egyptians have a Concept of Taboo?

University of Göttingen, Germany:

1989 Tabu und Maat University of Cambridge,

England:

1994 THE GLANVILLE MEMORIAL LECTURE:

On Categorization and Metaphorical Structuring: Some Remarks on Egyptian Art and Language University of Oxford, England: 1994 The Forbidden Fruit

Musées Royaux d’Art et

d’Histoire, Bruxelles, Belgium:

1994 Taboo

University of Vienna (Institute of Musicology), Austria:

1995 Akhnaten by Philip Glass Universite Louvain-la-Neuve,

Belgium:

1996 De la représentation dans l’art et la langue de l’Egypte ancienne

University of Göttingen, Germany

1998 Defining the Category of Evil. Free University of Berlin,

Germany:

1998 Death and Bloodshed in Ancient Egypt University of Chicago 1999 Categorization and Taboo

University of Chicago 2000 The Image of Ancient Egypt in Operas University of Uppsala, Sweden 2000 Ægyptensbilledet i operaer

University of Uppsala, Sweden 2000 Perspektiver i den religionshistoriske forskning. University College London,

England

2000 Aida and Edward Said: attitudes and images of Ancient Egypt and Egyptology

Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und

Sozialwissenschaften

2001 Is Small Beautiful? The Future of Small Disciplines

University of Chicago 2002 Conceptions of Sin and Evil Autonomous University of

Madrid, Spain

2002 Menstruation in Ancient Egypt University of Uppsala, Sweden 2003 On Lexicography

Switzerland

The Aegean University, Rhodes, Greece

2003 Between Heaven and Earth

University of Oxford 2004 On the notion of evil in Ancient Egypt University of Uppsala, Sweden 2006 Det guddommelige kongedømme og

sprogvidenskaben

University of Chicago 2007 Linguistics and the Definition of Kingship in Ancient Egypt

2. PUBLICATIONS

2.1 Books

(1) An Outline of the Late Egyptian Verbal System, Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1974, XIX + 329 pages.

(2) At-former, Copenhagen: The University of Copenhagen, 1975, 90 pages.

(3) Incestuous and Close-Kin Marriage in Ancient Egypt and Persia: An Examination of the Evidence, (= CNI Publications, 34), Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2009, 224 pages.

2.2 Editorial work

 1986-founder of the series CNI Publications, of which I have been the principal editor ever since.

 1993- 2002 assistant editor of the Great Danish Encyclopaedia (Den Store Danske Encyklopedi). (4) Mellem Nilen og Tigris. Festskrift for Carsten Niebuhr Instituttet, Copenhagen:

Museum Tusculanum Press, 1984, 167 pages, (ed. together with Jørgen Læssøe, 15 papers on the Ancient Near East).

(5) Dagligliv blandt guder og mennesker. Den nære orient i oldtiden, Copenhagen:

Museum Tusculanum Press, 1986, 248 pages, (ed. together with Bendt Alster, 28 papers on the Ancient Near East).

(6) Crossroad. Chaos or the Beginning of a New Paradigm. Papers from the Conference on Egyptian Grammar, Helsingør 28-30 May 1986, (= CNI Publications, 1), Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1986, 410 pages, (ed. together with Gertie Englund, 18 contributions).

(7) Demotic Texts from the Collection, with Contributions by K-Th. Zauzich, W.J.Tait and Michel Chauveau, (= CNI Publications, 15, The Carlsberg Papyri, 1), Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1991, VIII + 140 pages + 10 plates.

(8) A Miscellany of Demotic Texts and Studies, with Contributions by J.F. Quack, K. Ryholt, M. Smith, W.J. Tait, K.-Th. Zauzich, (= CNI Publications, 22, The Carlsberg Papyri, 3), Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000, VII + 171 pages + 26 plates. Edited together with Kim Ryholt.

2.3 Papers

(9) ‘Heqareshu and the Family of Tuthmosis IV’, in: Acta Orientalia, 37 (1976), pp.5 - 10. (10) ‘A Fragmentary Letter of the Early Middle Kingdom’, in: Journal of the American

Research Center in Egypt 15 (1978), pp.25 - 31 and pls.V - VIII.

(11) ‘Egyptian Imperialism’, in: M. Trolle Larsen (ed.), Power and Propaganda. A

Symposium on Ancient Empires, (= Mesopotamia, 7), Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1979, pp.167 - 190.

(12) J.J. Janssens Commodity Prices, in: Acta Orientalia, 40 (1979), pp.279 - 302. (13) ‘Shenoute: A Bibliography’, in: D.W.Young (ed.), Studies Presented to Hans Jacob

Polotsky, East Gloucester (Mass.): Pirtle & Polson, 1981, pp.147 - 176, (together with E. Richter - Ærøe).

(14) ‘Vi sulter’, in: Mellem Nilen og Tigris (no. 3 ovenfor), pp.41 - 51. (15) ‘Tabu på ægyptisk’, in: Chaos 3 (1984), pp.17 - 31.

(16) ‘Tabu’, in: Lexicon der Ägyptologie, VI,135 - 142 (1985).

(17) ‘Tell Mardikh (Ebla)’, in: Lexicon der Ägyptologie, VI,348 - 351 (1985).

(18) ‘On the Relevance of Logical Analysis’, in: Crossroad (no. 5 ovenfor), pp.145 - 159. (19) ‘En flodhest i træet - eller den omvendte verden’, in: Dagligliv blandt guder og

mennesker (no. 4 ovenfor), pp.73 - 83.

(20) ‘ “Mana ... if we are to talk in terms of modern professional jargon” ’, in: Chaos 10 (1988), pp.95 - 115.

(21) ‘Trade and Cult’, in: G. Englund, The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians. Cognitive Structures and Popular Expressions. Proceedings of Symposia in Uppsala and Bergen 1987 and 1988, (= Boreas. Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations, 20), Uppsala, 1989, pp.95 - 108.

(22) ‘A Word for “Causeway” and the Location of “The Five Walls”’, in: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 75 (1989), pp.113 - 123.

(23) ‘BWT - Divine Kingship and Grammar’, in: Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur, Beiheft 3 (1989), pp.151 - 158.

(24) ‘Kongedømmet er det ypperste embede’, in: Papyrus, 3/4 (1989), pp.36 - 44. (Translation of ‘Merikare’).

(25) ‘Editing Reality: The Turin Strike Papyrus’, in: S. Groll (ed.), Studies in Egyptology Presented to Miriam Lichtheim, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1990, pp.166 - 199.

(26) ‘Philip Glass’ Akhnaten’, in: Papyrus 11/1 (1991), pp.22 - 63. (27) ‘At høre - om Polotsky’, in: Papyrus 11/2 (1991), pp.6 - 9.

(28) ‘Ægyptologi efter 1937’, in: P.J.Jensen & L.Grane (eds.), Københavns Universitet 1479-1979, vol. VIII, Det filosofiske Fakultet, 1.del, Copenhagen 1992, pp.635 - 652.

(29) ‘On the Root nfr and a Clever Remark on Embalming’, in: J. Osing and E. Kolding-Nielsen (eds.), The Heritage of Ancient Egypt, Studies in Honour of Erik Iversen, (= CNI Publications, 13), Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1992, pp.49 – 62. (30) ‘The Letter to Ikhtay's Coffin: O. Louvre Inv.no.698’, in: R.J. Demarée and A. Egberts

(eds.), Village Voices. Proceedings of the Symposium Texts from Deir el-Medîna and Their Interpretation , Leiden, May 31 - June 1, 1991, Leiden 1992, pp.31 - 49.

(31) ‘Philip Glass’ Akhnaten’, in: The Musical Quarterly, 77 (1993), pp.241 - 267. Reprinted in Richard Kostelanetz (ed.), Writings on Glass. Essays, Interviews, Criticism, New York: Schirmer Books; London, Mexico City, New Delhi, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto: Prentice Hall International, 1997, pp.212-239. Paperback: University of California Press, 1999, pp.212-239. Many later editions.

(32) ‘Foragt ikke det små for at du ikke selv skal blive lille’, in: Carlsbergfondet.

Frederiksborgmuseet. Ny Carlsbergfondet. Årsskrift 1993, København 1993, pp.39 - 45. (33) ‘Perspektiv på det perspektivløse. Om ægyptisk og ægyptisk kunst’, in: Tidsskriftet

Antropologi, 27 (1993) pp.75 - 118.

(34) ‘Prinsen og skæbnen og sprogvidenskaben’, in: Lemche, N.P. & Müller, M. (eds.), Fra dybet. Festskrift til John Strange i anledning af 60 års fødselsdagen den 20 juli 1994, (= Forum for bibelsk eksegese, 5), København: Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 1994, pp.63 - 83.

(35) ‘On Categorization and Metaphorical Structuring: Some Remarks on Egyptian Art and Language’, in: Cambridge Archaeological Journal 7 (1997), pp.71 - 104.

(37) ‘Den forbudte frugt’, in: Papyrus 17,2 (1997), pp.18 - 26.

(38) ‘On the Avoidance of Certain Forms of Loud Voices and Access to the Sacred’, in: Clarysse, W., Willems, H. & Schoors, A. (eds.), Egyptian Religion the Last Thousand Years., Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Jan Quaegebeur, (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 85), Leuven: Peeters, 1998, pp.975 - 1000

(39) ‘On Fear of Death and the Three BWTs connected with Hathor’, in: Teeter, Emily and Larson, John A. (eds.), Gold of Praise. Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F.Wente, (= SAOC, 58 ), Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1999, pp.131-148.

(40) ‘Millenniumdebat om religion’, in: Papyrus 20/1 (2000), pp.9-10.

(41) ‘On the Origin of the Notion of Evil in Ancient Egypt’, in: Göttinger Miszellen 179 (2000), pp.9-34.

(42) ‘“Korset har sejret”. Philæ mellem hedenskab og kristendom’, in: Papyrus 20/2 (2000), pp.28-34.

(43) ‘Taboo’, in: Donald B. Redford (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, vol.III, pp. 345-346. Reprinted in: Donald B. Redford (ed.), The Ancient Gods Speak. A Guide to Egyptian Religion, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp.349-351.

(44) ‘Aïda og Akhnaten - Ægypten i operaen’, in Erik Christiansen (ed.), Arven fra Ægypten, Aarhus: Tidsskriftet Sfinx, 2001, II, pp.221-249.

(45) ‘Historier om omvendelse’, in: Papyrus 21/1 (2001), pp.33-36.

(46) BWT in the Body, in: Willems, Harco. (ed.), Social Aspects of Funerary Culture in the Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdoms , (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 103), Leuven: Peeters, 2001, pp.141-174.

(47) ‘The Pyramid and Coffin Texts of the Coffins’, in: Jørgensen, Mogens, Tomb Treasures from Ancient Egypt, Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2002, pp.112-118.

(48) ‘Response to Herman te Velde’s key-note lecture on Egyptian Religion’, in: Zahi Hawass, in collaboration with Lyla Pinch Brock (eds.), Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of

Egyptologists Cairo 2000, vol. 2, Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2003, pp.48-49.

(49) ‘Kerma – dødekult i Nubien’, in: Papyrus 23/2 (2003), pp.26-41 (together with Tine Bagh)

(50) ‘Le fruit défendu dans l’Égypte ancienne’, in: Bulletin de la Société d’Égyptologie Geneve 25 (2002-2003), pp.1-18.

(51) ‘Aida and Edward Said: Attitudes and Images of Ancient Egypt and Egyptology’, in: J. G. Dercksen (ed.), Assyria and Beyond. Studies Presented to Mogens Trolle Larsen, Leiden and Leuven: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten and Peeters, 2004, pp.205-227.

(52) ‘Sin’, in: Sarah Iles Johnston (ed.), Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide, Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004, pp.497-499.

(53) ‘Ekskrementer og mad: Ægypternes forestilling om det onde’, in: Papyrus 24/1 (2004), pp.4-15.

(54) ‘Ægypten i operaen’, in: Aida, København: Det Kgl. Teater, 2005, pp.11-22. (55) ‘Hungersnødsstelen’, in: Papyrus 25/1 (2005), pp.4-11.

(56) ‘The Bitter Honey at Dendara’, in: Ernst Czerny, Irmgard Hein, Hermann Hunger, Dagmar Melman, Angela Schwab (eds.), Timelines. Studies in honour of Manfred Bietak; vol.3, (= OLA 149,3), Leuven, 2006, pp.197-201.

(57) ‘Judasevangeliet’, in: Papyrus 26/1 (2006), pp.34-43.

(58) ‘Shenute – en ægyptisk Elias’, in: Papyrus 26/2 (2006), pp.36-45

(59) ‘Of Crossroad(s) and Theory’, in: Lingua Aegyptia 14 (2006) (= Verena M. Lepper, Peter Nagel & Wolfgang Schenkel (eds.), “After Polotsky”. New Research and Trends in Egyptian and Coptic Linguistics), pp.107-114.

(60) ‘Menstrual Taboo in Ancient Egypt’, in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies 66 (2007), pp.81-105.

(61) ‘Kampen om de fattiges sjæl’, in: Papyrus 27/1 (2007), pp.36-46.

(62) ‘Myter og musik. Om Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesens Gudernes Tusmørke’, in: Papyrus 27/2 (2007), pp.38-42.

(63) ‘Aspects of Kingship in Ancient Egypt’, in: Nicole Brisch (ed.), Religion and Power. Divine Kingship in the Ancient World and Beyond, (= Oriental Institute Seminars, 4), Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2008, pp.47-73.

(64) ‘Corruption and Grammar. Abbott 6,1-2 and Some Sceptical Remarks on the Imperfect Participle’, in: P.Grandet and L.Pantallaci, Mélanges offerts à François Neveu, (= BdE, 145), Le Caire: IFAO, 2008, pp.145-159.

(65) ‘Den gode krig. Om Kushiternes invasion’, in: Papyrus 28/1 (2008), pp.32-43. (66) ‘Akhenaton, Moses og den moderne monoteismedebat’, in: Religionsvidenskabeligt

(67) ‘Gravrøverier. Fra helligbrøde til finanspolitik’, in: Tidernes Morgen. På sporet af kulturens kilder i det gamle Mellemøsten. Festskrift til ære for orientalisten Valdemar Schmidt, grundlæggeren af de mellemøstlige oldtidsstudier ved Københavns Universitet, skaberen af den ægyptiske samling i Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen: Ny

Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2008, pp.138-147.

(68) ‘Voldelig monoteisme – Arven fra Amarna?’, in: Lise Manniche og Bo Dahl Hermansen, Fokus på Amarna. Akhnaton og Nefertitis univsers, Viby: Tidsskriftet Sfinx, 2009, pp.249-268 og 284-287.

(69) ‘Giftes med farmand – om ægteskab mellem familiemedlemmer’, in: Ditte Maria Søgaard og Claus Valling Pedersen (eds.), Tværkultur. Årbog for ToRS 2009, København: Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, 2010, pp.97-103. (70) ‘Indledning’, til Frederik Ludvig Norden, Rejse i Egypten og Nubien. Rejsebeskrivelse

forsynet med kort og tegninger udført på stederne af forfatteren selv, 2 bind,

København: Videnskabernes Selskab på Forlaget Vandkunsten, 2010, pp.IX-XLIX. (71) ‘Durkheim’s dichotomy sacred : profane and the Egyptian category bwt’, in: Zahi

Hawass and Jennifer Houser Wegner (eds.), Millions of Jubilees. Studies in Honor of David P. Silverman, 2.vols., Cairo: Publications du Conseil Suprême des Antiquités de l’Égypte, 2010, pp.149-174.

(72) ‘Ægteskab og incest i oldtiden’, in: Papyrus 30:1 (2010), ss.32-41.

(73) ‘Hieroglyffer. Det ægyptiske skriftsystem’, in Stig T. Rasmussen (ed.), Verdens Skrifter, Copenhagen: Forlaget Vandkunsten, 2011, pp. 3-25.

(74) ‘Shenutes formaninger om Guds natur og origenismen’, in: Tim Jensen og Mikael Rothstein (ed.), Den sammenklappelige tid. Festskrift til Jørgen Podemann Sørensen, København: Forlaget Chaos, 2011, pp.77-88.

(75) ‘Faeces of the Creator or The Temptations of the Dead’, in: Panagiotis Kousoulis (ed.), Ancient Egyptian Demonology, Studies on the Boundaries between the Demonic and the Divine in Egyptian Magic, (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 175), Leuven: Peeters, 2010, pp.25-62.

2.4 In Press

(76) ‘To kill or not to kill’, in: FS Pascal Vernus, 2012, 19 pages.

(77) ‘A Bird’s Eye View on Perspective’, in: Elisabeth Frood (ed.), FS John Baines, 2012, 4 pages.

2.5 Reviews

(78) E. Edel, Die Felsgräbernekropole der Qubbet el Hawa bei Assuan. II. Abteilung. ARWAW, Band 55, in: Acta Orientalia, 38 (1977), pp. 333 - 335.

(79) E. Edel, Hieroglyphische Inschriften des Alten Reiches, 1981, in: Acta Orientalia, 46 (1985), pp. 168 - 171.

(80) Antonio Loprieno (ed.), Ancient Egyptian Literature: History and Forms, (Probleme der Ägyptologie, 10), Leiden-New York-Köln: E.J.Brill, 1996, in: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 43 (2000), pp.192-200. (81) Arlette David, De l’infériorité à la pertubation. L’oiseau du “mal” et la

catégorisation en Egypte ancienne. Classification and Categorization in Ancient Egypt, vol.1. GOF IV,38, Wiesbaden 2000, in Lingua Aegyptia 10 (2002), pp.322-332.

Contributions to exhibition catalogues and encyclopaedias

(82) 10 articles, Akhnaton og Nefertiti, in: Louisiana Revy, 17. årgang, nr. 1. (83) Miscellaneous articles, in: Den Store Danske Encykolopedi (1993-2002). (84) Miscellaneous articles, in: Gyldendals Leksikon, 2002.

Miscellaneous

(85) ‘En dansk ægyptologisk støttefond’, in: Papyrus 21,2 (2001), pp.4-11, in collaboration with T. Holm-Rasmussen and J. Rosman

(86) ‘Small is beautiful?’, in: La fin du “small is beautiful”?. Les petites disciplines en point de mire, Colloque de l’Académie suisse des sciences humaines et sociales, Neuchâtel, Musée le Laténium, 5 octobre 2001, Bern, 2002, pp.27-35. (87) Miscellaneous articles in newspapers.

Obituaries

Unpublished (submitted for evaluation in connection with my applications for a chair in Copenhagen, Uppsala, Vienna and Göttingen)

(89) ‘The Coptic Nominal Sentence’. 14 pages.