Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt

Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt
Author: James P. Allen
Publisher: Yale Egyptological Seminar
Total Pages: 159
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780912532189

Seven important essays on the study of ancient Egyptian religion. Contents: The cosmology of the pyramid texts (James P Allen); Textual criticism in the coffin texts (David P Silverman); State and religion in the New Kingdom (Jan Assmann); The natural philosophy of Akhenaten (James P Allen); Horus or the crocodiles: a juncture of religion and magic in late Dynastic Egypt (Robert K Ritner); Psychology and society in the ancient Egyptian cult of the dead (Alan B Lloyd); Death and initiation in the funerary reliion of ancient Egypt.

The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife

The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife
Author: Erik Hornung
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801485152

This volume offers a survey about what is known about the Ancient Egyptians' vision of the afterlife and an examination of these beliefs that were written down in books that were later discovered in royal tombs. The contents of the texts range from the collection of spells in the Book of the Dead, which was intended to offer practical assistance on the journey to the afterlife, to the detailed accounts of the hereafter provided in the Books of the Netherworld. The author looks closely at these latter works, while summarizing the contents of the Book of the Dead and other widely studied examples of the genre. For each composition, he discusses the history of its ancient transmission and its decipherment in modern times, supplying bibliographic information for any text editions. He also seeks to determine whether this literature as a whole presents a monolithic conception of the afterlife. The volume features many drawings from the books themselves.

Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt

Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt
Author: Stephen Quirke
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1118610520

Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt offers a stimulating overview of the study of ancient Egyptian religion by examining research drawn from beyond the customary boundaries of Egyptology and shedding new light on entrenched assumptions. Discusses the evolution of religion in ancient Egypt – a belief system that endured for 3,000 years Dispels several modern preconceptions about ancient Egyptian religious practices Reveals how people in ancient Egypt struggled to secure well-being in the present life and the afterlife

The Religion of Ancient Egypt

The Religion of Ancient Egypt
Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Publisher: Binker North
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1906
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Religion of Ancient Egypt is a classic religious studies text by the great pioneering English egyptologist, W. M. Flinders Petrie. Before dealing with the special varieties of the Egyptians' belief in gods, it is best to try to avoid a misunderstanding of their whole conception of the supernatural. The term god has come to tacitly imply to our minds such a highly specialised group of attributes, that we can hardly throw our ideas back into the more remote conceptions to which we also attach the same name.

Perspectives on Lived Religion

Perspectives on Lived Religion
Author: Nico Staring
Publisher: Papers on Archaeology of the L
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789088907920

Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if superficial narratives, however. Individuals and groups continuously shaped their environments, and were shaped by them in turn. This volume explores the ways in which this adaptation, negotiation, and reconstruction of religious understandings took place. The material results of these processes are termed 'cultural geography'. The volume examines this 'cultural geography' through the study of three vectors of religious agency: religious practices, the transmission of texts and images, and the study of religious landscapes.Bringing together papers by experts in a variety of Egyptological disciplines and other fields of study, this volume presents the results of an interdisciplinary workshop held at the University of Leiden, 7-9 November 2018, kindly funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Vidi Talent Scheme. The 16 papers presented here discuss the archaeology of religion and religious practices, landscape archaeology and 'cultural geography', and the transmission and adaptation of texts and images, across not only the history of Egypt from the Early Dynastic to the Christian periods, but also in ancient Sudanese archaeology, the Arabian peninsula, early and medieval south-eastern Asia, and contemporary China.

Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire

Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire
Author: Karl W. Luckert
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1991-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438411391

Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire focuses on the cosmology of ancient Egypt and on derived traditions. The book outlines how the ancient Egyptian world view affected Hebrew religion, Greek philosophy, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, and early Christianity. It traces ideological roots of Western civilization back to its earliest known prototypes in the Pyramid and Coffin texts of ancient Egypt. It challenges us to refocus some of our history of early Greek philosophy, and it positively identifies Neoplatonism as a philosophized and scarcely disguised neo-Egyptian theology.

Ancient Egyptian Religion

Ancient Egyptian Religion
Author: Henri Frankfort
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-06-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 048614495X

Fascinating study finds underlying unity in Egyptian religions — the concept of the changeless. Relation of religion to Egyptian society, government, art, more. 32 halftones.