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Egyptian Religion

Books of Breathing and Related Texts: Catalogue of the Books of the Dead and Other Religious Texts in the British Museum, Volume IV
by F R Herbin
The British Museum's collection of late hieratic religious papyri, particularly those of the Graeco-Roman period, is one of the most important in the world, in terms both of its number and its diversity. The papyri mainly comprise funerary texts laid beside the deceased as guides in the underworld, but also temple rituals, liturgies and texts of magical inspiration. For each of the fifty or so documents catalogued the author provides a general ...
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Crown of Arsinoë II: The Creation of an Image of Authority
by Maria Nilsson
The Crown of Arsinoë II is a detailed study of a unique crown that was created for the Ptolemaic Egyptian Queen Arsinoë II which has important conclusions for ancient Egyptian history. Images of Arsinoë are represented in a broad spectrum of iconographic media, depicting this historical figure in a Greek as well as Egyptian cultural setting, and as queen and goddess alike, though her tomb has never been found. Based on ...
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Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt
by Emily Teeter
This book is a vivid reconstruction of the practical aspects of ancient Egyptian religion. Through an examination of artefacts and inscriptions, the text explores a variety of issues. For example, who was allowed to enter the temples, and what rituals were performed therein? Who served as priests? How were they organized and trained, and what did they do? What was the Egyptians' attitude toward death, and what happened at funerals? How did the ...
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Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara: The Mother of Apis Inscriptions
by H.S. Smith, C.A.R. Andrews and Sue Davies
The Mother of Apis inscriptions (534-41 BC), found in 1966-71 in and outside the Mother of Apis Catacomb at North Saqqara by the Egypt Exploration Society, comprise the stelae and graffiti of the masons who constructed the catacomb and of the priests who oversaw the work and conducted the burial and other rituals for the cows. The texts include genealogies of the masons and some accounts of their work and rations. This study includes ...
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Egypt in Transition. Social and Religious Development of Egypt in the First Millennium BCE
edited by Ladislav Bares, Filip Coppens and Kveta Smoláriková
The first millennium BCE represents for Egypt a period of tremendous changes and developments on the political, social, economic and religious level. The millennium was shaped and characterised by a continuous interaction between Egypt as an independent political entity, with its indigenously developed social and religious system, and various political, military and cultural forces and influences introduced into the country, both through ...
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Documents in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago
edited by Thomas George Allen
Hope for life after death is evidenced even in prehistoric times in Upper Egypt. The first written aids for attaining and supporting life in the hereafter were the Pyramid Texts inscribed within royal tombs towards the end of the Old Kingdom. In the Middle Kingdom, many texts were borrowed from the pyramid chambers and mingled with new spells; this new form, which today we call Coffin Texts, was usually written inside coffins. These eventually ...
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For The Living and the Dead: The Funerary Laments of Upper Egypt, Ancient and Modern
by Elizabeth Wickett
The funeral laments of Upper Egypt have an elaborate and ancient history stretching back more than 5,000 years. Even the chants of modern-day lamenters, echo the words of their ancestors. The laments - known as idid in Arabic - are composed orally in performance. Elizabeth Wickett explores the performance, motifs and meanings of the laments and reveals their relation to myth, religion, cosmology and the ancient Egyptian funerary texts. 307p ...
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Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt
by Joyce Tyldesley
The Egyptians, Joyce Tyldesley informs us in her rintroduction recognised over 1500 deities during their 3000 year history. This book explores the main myths and legends which were told about them, presenting or retelling and then analysing the stories, and asking what they can tell us about Egyptian society and cultural attitudes. The reader is guided through the vaious creation stories, then those surrounding death, particularly the death and ...
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Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel and the Rise of Monotheism
by Jan Assmann
Jan Assmann made a name for himself outside of the world of academic Egpytology with his 1997 work Moses the Egyptian, and here ten years later he revisits that book, refining its arguments and responding to criticism. As well as examining the Egyptian context for the development of monotheism, he puts forward a controversial, but now much more honed arguement, about what exactly makes monotheism so revolutionary. This is not the belief in ...
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Gods and Men in Egypt 3000BC to 395 Ad
by Francoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche
Translated from the French (published 2002) this English edition looks at the history of Gods and Men in Egypt from the time of the pharaohs to the arrival of Christianity. The first part of the book, written by Christiane Zivie-Coche, takes a thematic and rather anthropological approach to the pharaonic period, looking at the gods, who they were and what role they performed, cosmology, creation, gods on earth, temples, worship and ritual ...
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