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This review is from: The Search for God in Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
First published in 1984, this book is finally available in English. The author offers his views on Ancient Egyptian religion, theology and piety. In the various chapters (The Cosmos, Myth, The New Gods, Theodicy and Theology), he explains the difficulties when discussing Ancient Egyptian thought, rituals and cultic beliefs. This book attempts to compare religions based on what is known about the Ancient Egyptian religion. Well researched, this is most definitely a serious book for scholars and students interested in the subject. Recommended reading for all.
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The Search for God in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann (Cornell University Press) (PAPERBACK) provides a fresh synthesis of the main characteristics of Egyptian religion. Unlike the more hermetically minded scholars, Assmann sticks to the records as preserved and seamlessly draws on current religious theories about how cults function and the divine presence is ritualized to reveal the strangeness and beauty of Egyptian religion in a coherence misplaced from earlier accounts.
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The ancient Egyptian language has no word for "religion," but the many treatments of Egyptian religion have encountered no difficulties in determining their subject; the relevant phenomena are clearly distinct within what remains to us of Egyptian culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
solar theology, explicit theology, solar hymns, mortuary literature, mortuary texts, implicit theology, cultic dimension, sacramental interpretation, mortuary cult, heavenly cow, further attestations, primeval mound, negating force, primeval god, solar religion, mortuary offerings, divine realm, ethical authority, lector priest, radiant power, divine statues, verbal dimension Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, Old Kingdom, Ramesside Period, New Solar Theology, Two Lands, Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Amarna Period, Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, Late Period, Mircea Eliade, Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus, Book of the Dead, Books of the Netherworld, House of the Noble, Judgment of the Dead, Opening of the Mouth, Papyrus Chester Beatty, Ptolemaic Period, Book of the Heavenly Cow, Erik Hornung, Sacred Place, Theban Amun New!
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The ancient Egyptian language has no word for "religion," but the many treatments of Egyptian religion have encountered no difficulties in determining their subject; the relevant phenomena are clearly distinct within what remains to us of Egyptian culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
solar theology, explicit theology, solar hymns, mortuary literature, mortuary texts, implicit theology, cultic dimension, sacramental interpretation, mortuary cult, heavenly cow, further attestations, primeval mound, negating force, primeval god, solar religion, mortuary offerings, divine realm, ethical authority, lector priest, radiant power, divine statues, verbal dimension Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, Old Kingdom, Ramesside Period, New Solar Theology, Two Lands, Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Amarna Period, Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, Late Period, Mircea Eliade, Ramesseum Dramatic Papyrus, Book of the Dead, Books of the Netherworld, House of the Noble, Judgment of the Dead, Opening of the Mouth, Papyrus Chester Beatty, Ptolemaic Period, Book of the Heavenly Cow, Erik Hornung, Sacred Place, Theban Amun New!
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- Ancient Egypt (The Cultural atlas of the world) by John Baines on 6 pages
- Egyptian Religion: Siegried Morenz by Siegfried Morenz in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Development Of Religion And Thought In Ancient Egypt by James Breasted in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts: (Nisaba) by J. F. Borghouts in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Amarna Letters by William L. Moran on page 213, and Back Matter
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- Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible by John H. Walton on 7 pages
- Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann on 4 pages
- The Gods of Egypt by Claude Traunecker in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Time (Key Concepts) by Barbara Adam in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs by Jan Assmann in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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