About the author
Jacco Dieleman is an Egyptologist whose scholarship focuses on ritual, magic, and religion in Greco-Roman Egypt. He teaches in the field of Egyptology and has built a research profile around the transmission of ritual texts across languages and cultures. His book Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual (100-300 CE), published by Brill, examines two bilingual magical handbooks recovered near Luxor in the early nineteenth century, part of a larger cache of magical and alchemical papyri. Dieleman traces how these Roman-period handbooks were produced and used, and what their bilingualism reveals about the priests who compiled them and the translation choices embedded in ritual practice. The work sits within academic Egyptology and the history of ancient magic rather than popular occult writing, and it will interest readers researching Greco-Egyptian ritual texts, papyrology, or the scholarly study of ancient magical practice.
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“Jacco Dieleman delivers an exhaustive academic study that demands patience and specialized knowledge from its audience. While it succeeds brilliantly in unpacking the linguistic mechanics of Roman-era ritual handbooks, it is not…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual (100-300 Ce) - Ingram Academic Dieleman, Jacco
“Dieleman’s scholarly dissection is rigorous and illuminating, successfully bridging philology with cultural analysis to expose the social dynamics of Roman-era magic. However, this text is strictly academic and will likely…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual (100-300 Ce) - Ingram Academic Dieleman, Jacco
