Review: Birk, Ralph, Türöffner des Himmels: prosopographische Studien zur thebanischen Hohepriesterschaft der Ptolemäerzeit, Ägyptologische Abhandlungen 76, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag
2021
Abstrakt
The reviewed book is an in-depth study and analysis of individual high priests and the families to which they belonged, illustrating the waxing and waning of their position, as well as the rise and fall of the importance, authority and influence of their families within the local priestly hierarchy. Through the local high clergy, the volume represents a reconstruction of the Theban religious landscape at the very end of Pharaonic rule and during the three subsequent centuries of Ptolemaic government.