Religion in Ancient Egypt
Author: John Baines
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780801497865
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lectures given at a symposium held in 1987, sponsored by Fordham University.
Author: John Baines
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780801497865
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Lectures given at a symposium held in 1987, sponsored by Fordham University.
Author: Phillips Christina Phillips
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-06-24
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1474417086
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an in-depth, original survey of religion in the modern Arabic novel. Tracing the relationship from the genesis of the form in the early 20th century to present, Phillips provides a thematic exploration of the push and pull between religion and secularism as it played out on the pages of the Egyptian novel. Through close readings of representative texts, the book reveals the manifold ways in which Islam, Christianity, Sufism, myth, ritual and intertext have engaged in modern Arabic literature and culture more broadly.
Author: Emily Teeter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-13
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0521848555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a vivid reconstruction of ancient Egyptian religious rituals that were enacted in temples, tombs, and private homes.
Author: Stephen Quirke
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1993-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780486274270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jan Assmann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 071030465X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Siegfried Morenz
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780801480294
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introducing the reader to the gods and their worshippers and to the ways in which they were related, this book focuses on the ever-present link between the human and the divine in Ancient Egypt. The book also examines the impact of Egyptian religion
Author: Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With frequent references to archeological finds, this book explores the ancient Egyptian concept of the afterlife. Author Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge was an English Egyptologist who worked for the British Museum. While Budge was not exempt from the darker side of Egyptology--he was complicit in the smuggling of antiquities, and by purchasing from dealers rather than engaging in excavation he helped encourage archeological looting--his tenure was marked by a decided increase in the quality of the museum's collection. Budge wrote this book using the full resources of the British Museum, and the resulting work offers an in-depth look at ancient Egyptian funerary practices.
Author: Nico Staring
Publisher: Papers on Archaeology of the L
Published: 2019-09-30
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9789088907920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Erik Hornung
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780801485152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.