Book of the Dead [39]: from Shouting to Structure (Book Review‪)‬

Book of the Dead [39]: From Shouting to Structure. By JORIS F. BORGHOUTS. Studien zum Altagyptischen Totenbuch, vol. 10. Wiesbaden: HARRASSOWITZ VERLAG, 2007. Pp. 110. [euro]40 (paper). This monograph is devoted to a detailed study of Spell 39 of the Book of the Dead and includes a translation of the spell with copious notes to justify the author's readings, a lengthy commentary on the text of the spell and its meaning, a short discussion on the vignettes of the spell, a discussion on serpents as adversaries of the sun god Re in the great cosmic struggle of order over chaos, and a synoptic transcription of the texts for this spell from six different documents.