Religion And Philosophy In Ancient Egypt
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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.
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.
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
Author | : Muata Ashby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2008-08-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781884564741 |
Ashby explains the Tree of Life metaphysical teachings, disciplines, and techniques from the hieroglyphic texts.
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.
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.
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.
Author | : Archibald Henry Sayce |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Assyro-Babylonian religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jeremy Naydler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : 9781898497523 |
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.