Understanding Power in Ancient Egypt and the Near East, Volume 2: Manifestations and Responses (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004766556)

Jessica Tomkins (Ph.D, Brown University) is Assistant Professor of History at Wofford College. Her current research focuses on decentralized and non-Eurocentric models of kingship, and provincial government in the Egyptian Old Kingdom.

Shane M. Thompson (Ph.D Brown University) is Associate Professor of Bible and the Ancient Near East in the Religious Studies Program at North Carolina Wesleyan University. His current research primarily focuses on leisure activities and power relationships in the ancient Near East. He is the author of Displays of Cultural Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony in the Late Bronze and Iron Age Levant: The Public Presence of Foreign Powers and Local Resistance (Routledge, 2023).

Jessica Tomkins and Shame M. Thompson are also the co-editors of Understanding Power in Ancient Egypt and the Near East, Volume I: Approaches (Brill, 2025).