<div>Dear colleagues, I'm proud to present:</div><div><br /></div><div>Benjamin Sippel</div><div>Gottesdiener und Kamelzüchter. Das Alltags- und Sozialleben der Sobek-Priester im kaiserzeitlichen Fayum (Philippika 144).<br />Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2020<br />354 pp.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Scholars with an interest in <b>Roman Egypt</b> or <b>Egyptian Religion</b> may be interested.<br /><br /><div>Blurb:</div><div>At the time when Octavian conquered Egypt, several large temples on the edges of the Fayum maintained <br /></div><div>the cult of the crocodile god Sobek. For the three following centuries, rich evidence illustrates the everyday <br /></div><div>life of this priesthood between ritual acts, temple administration and family life under Roman rule.<br /><br />Benjamin Sippel draws for the first time a picture of the relations of Fayum's Sobek priests <br /></div><div>among themselves, to their village communities and to state officials. The focus is on the <br /></div><div>villages Bakchias, Narmuthis, Soknopaiu Nesos, Tebtynis and Theadelphia. Four thematic areas <br /></div><div>form the core of the study: (1) the peculiarities of naming among priestly families, (2) the efforts of <br /></div><div>temple colleges to attract a Hellenistically educated audience, (3) the secular earning opportunities <br /></div><div>for priests, and (4) sources of conflict in the temple environment. On the one hand, Sippel deconstructs <br /></div><div>the stereotype of Egyptian priests as an 'indigenous elite'. On the other hand, the study closes <br /></div><div>a research gap by shedding light on the specific situation of the Sobek cults in Fayum under Roman rule.</div><div><br /></div>print ISBN 978-3-447-11485-1<br />eBook ISBN 978-3-447-39034-7<br />€ 85.00[D] / € 87,40 [A]<br /><a href="https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Gottesdiener_und_Kamelz%C3%BCchter/titel_6637.ahtml" iwc-bad-attr="" target="1">https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Gottesdiener_und_Kamelz%C3%BCchter/titel_6637.ahtml</a></div><div><br />Best wishes,<br /></div><div>Benjamin</div>