Doc. Jiří Janák, Th.D.

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J. Janák graduated in religious studies and theology from the Hussite Theological Faculty of Charles University in Prague. He is a regular lecturer at the Hussite Theological Faculty, Faculty of Arts and lecture events of the Czech Institute of Egyptology. In 2011, he became associate professor of Egyptology at the FA CU in Prague. He cooperates with the Egyptological Seminar of the University of Bonn (Totenbuch-Projekt). In 2013–2014 he was Fulbright Fellow at Brown University, Providence (USA). His specialisation is Ancient Egyptian religion, the concept of afterlife existence and interpretation of religious and magical texts. During the reference period his main interest was the relation between the “divine” and the “royal” majesty and their interaction.

Selected Bibliography:

  • Janák J., Staroegyptské náboženství, díly I a II, Oikoymenh: Praha 2009 a 2012.
  • Janák, J. – Landgráfová, R. 2014. How to make a mummy: A late hieratic guide from Abusir. In Metcalfe, R., Cockitt, J. and David, R. (eds.), Palaeopathology in Egypt and Nubia. Archaeopress Egyptology 6, Oxford, 107–118.
  • Janák, J. – Landgráfová, R. 2011. New evidence on the mummification process in the Late Period. In Bárta, M., Coppens, F. and Krejčí, J. (eds.), Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010. Prague, 30–45.
  • Janák, J. 2011. Spotting the Akh. The Presence of the Northern Bald Ibis in Ancient Egypt and its Early Decline. Journal of the American Research Centre in Egypt 46, 17–31. (citace: 11)
  • Janák, J. 2011. A Question of Size. A Remark on Early Attestaion of the Ba Hieroglyph. Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 40, 143–153.
  • Janák, J. – Vymazalová, H. – Coppens, F. 2011. The Fifth Dynasty “Sun Temples” in a Broader Context. In Bárta, M., Coppens, F. and Krejčí, J. (eds.), Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010. Prague, 430–442.
  • Bareš, L. – Janák, J. – Langráfová, R. – Smoláriková, K. 2010. The Shaft Tomb of Menekhibnekau at Abusir – Season of 2008. Zeitschrift fur Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 137/2, 91–97.
  • Janák, J. – Landgráfová, R., 2009. Nekau’s Book of the Dead Reopened, in: Backes, B., Müller-Roth, M., and Stöhr, S. (eds.), Ausgestattet mit den Schriften des Thot. Festschrift für Irmtraut Munro zu ihrem 65. Geburtstag. Studien zum Altägyptischen Totenbuch 14. Wiesbaden, 83–86.

 

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