English summary: In Egyptology, monographs on deities are an important genre, since they collect crucial information on individual deities. Yet those studies - particularly on more significant deities - are also difficult to write, because an analysis can be buried under the vast evidence if it is just catalogued. A god as prominent as Thoth, who is generally and simplistically characterized as a scribal god and a god of wisdom, has not yet been studied in detail. Martin A. Stadler explores new methodologies in combining Thoth with an exegesis of a substantial part of the Egyptian Book of the...