Explain What Makes My Source Scholarly

1. Explain what makes your source scholarly:
The reason why my source is scholarly is I retrieved it from the Ashford University Library. I searched using search words “Ancient Egypt” and selected the Scholarly/Peer Reviewed option before submitting the search. To better understand about the author if she is a credible source on the topic I researched her background. Author, Susan Hollis has been engaged for decades in scholarship in the literature and mythology of ancient Egypt. Her professional presentations and publications generally focus on Egyptian religion and narratives, women in the Bible, interrelations between the biblical and the ancient Egyptian worlds, and various aspects of narrative folklore, with a special interest in women’s folk narrative. She began as an associate professor at the college in 1996 and was dean and center coordinator (1996-1999), for its Central New York Center in Syracuse, moving to the Genesee Valley Center in Rochester in 1999 as faculty. In 2007, she was promoted to full professor. Hollis earned her A.B. in religion, at Smith College and her Ph.D. in ancient Near Eastern languages and civilizations from Harvard University. Near

Eastern languages and civilizations, from Harvard University.

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In your own words, what is the author’s thesis or the central focus? What would you answer if you described what you read to someone, and then they asked, “So what’s the point?”
I believe that Hollis central focus of this article is what centered on the origins and eventual dominance of the Sky Goddess Nut of ancient Egypt, an anomaly among sky deities, fills her cosmic role as mother of the stars and the sun, giving birth to the sun daily, and acts as mortuary goddess through the deceased king's identification with the sun, assuring his rebirth in the next world. Her mythological significance as Mother Goddess and mortuary goddess may be reflected in the important role taken by women in the life of ancient Egypt.

3. List three main points the author makes to back up the thesis or central

focus.
The nut was the goddess of the sky and all heavenly bodies, a symbol of protecting the dead when they enter the afterlife.
The nut is also the barrier separating the forces of chaos from the ordered cosmos in the world.
She was seen as a star-covered nude woman arching over the earth, or as a cow.

4. Explain how the author uses each main point to back up the thesis or central focus.
When reading the authors article, I noticed that she used a lot of quotations and references to several page numbers in parentheses and as well as providing several helpful time eras.

5. What Final Project question will you answer?
How does these current findings link with the previous finds in reference to ancient Egyptians and their religion?

6. What specific part of your Final Project could this article or chapter support? Why?
This article would go well in the body of several written paragraphs in my final paper. It would also help provide supporting details, examples, and explanation of my final paper.