No comment.

He insisted I gave him my copy so he could destroy them both in a fire.

This kills the Universe

That which is dead cannot die.

Looks to me like a pretty boring, but well written, set of anthropology essays. Mostly in the context of "this is Bob. He's a demon, but that's ok. He drinks blood, but not a lot. The Egyptians just think that's annoying. The Greeks would have called him evil."

Book desc:

"In the Egyptian context, what we term magic and demon, drawing on our own cultural heritage, are not seen as negative aspects of cultural practice and conceptualisation. Similarly, the Egyptian equivalents do not carry the pejorative connotations borne by the modern terms and their Greek antecedents; magic and demons can be forces for good as well as evil. Indeed, the practice of magic and the conceptualisation of personified demonic agents are central to the Egyptian understanding of the workings of the world from the very continuation of the cosmos itself down to the vicissitudes of existence faced by individuals.

"In particular, the broader practice of magic and articulation of the involvement of demonic agency form one of the crucial links in Ancient Egypt between individual existence on the human level and the level of nature or the cosmos, the realm of the gods. Unlike, though, the explicit recognition of the term demon in the ancient Greek language and religion, as the intermediary between god and mortals, the majority of the demonic names in the Egyptian literature do not possess an apparent ontological essence, or a clearly defined denotation. Their characteristics and role depended momentously on the verbal and performative ritual environment they were part of. The relation between the name of a demon and its cosmic-natural personification is not contradictory as it may seem, but it is closely interwoven in a well established ritual framework of words and actions.

"This multi-authored volume of 10 essays comprises an up-to-date authorized account of many aspects of ancient Egyptian demonology, including the multiple persona of the demonic or name vs. identity in the Egyptian formation of the demonic, nightmares and underworld demons, dream rituals and magic, categories of demonic entities and the vague distinction between the divine and the demonic in Egyptian cosmology and ritual, the theological and demonic aspects of Egyptian magic, and demons as reflections of human society."

From the authors blog:

"The aim of this ambitious, trandisciplinary research project is to study certain lexical, iconographical and chronological criteria for the formation of a category or categories of beings that could be mapped together and systemized to become a “demonology” within the cultural framework of Ancient Egypt. The time span covered is large (from the Old Kingdom through the Roman Period, roughly 3000 B.C. - A.D. 400) as are the source materials."

https://kousoulis.blogspot.com/p/egyptian-demonology-project.html?m=1

Don't demonology-gatekeep me pls.

It's a very serious academic publisher.

It's not either/or.

Written by Abdul Alhazred?

There's a lot of those...

The first that comes to mind is the Shams al-Ma'arif, but there's lots of other Arabic grimoires out there if you do some digging

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Is that 'We chat quite a bit about Ancient Egyptian Demonology'?

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I haven't read it front to back (yet?). It has interesting info on the practice of magic in antiquity and some cool insight into ancient worldview. It's written by several authors (each episode/section of a diff one focusing on different aspects), most are full of footnotes and they all definitely read like world history academic documents, but not science ones. Maybe the ones that rely more on archeology get close. Very few opinions, most conjectures and interpretations are cited, but it manages to have good content and if you don't mind skipping some boring parts, mostly manages to stay interesting.

Depends on what kind of company you expect