Religion

ISBN: 9780299225506
Published by : University of Wisconsin Press
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... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780299225544
Published by : University of Wisconsin Press
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... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789004170308
Published by : Brill Academic Publishers
Pharaoh Ramesses II visited the sacred area of Abydos soon after his recognition of power at Luxor in Thebes. With him were many high officials, one of whom would be soon appointed to be the high Priest of Amun at Thebes, Nebwenenef. During his... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9789042920316
Published by : Peeters Press
Philae, an island in the south of Egypt, has often been seen as a last outpost of pagan Egyptian worship, largely due to a mention in Procopius of Justinian ordering the destruction of its temples in 535-37. This study reinterprets the plentifu... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783110212242
Published by : Walter de Gruyter
These texts (P. Heidelberg dem. 736 verso, O. Hor 10, Theban Graffiti 3156, 3462, 3445, and P. Tebt. Tait 14) from the second century BC to the second century AD are re-edited in facsimile, transliteration and translation. A commentary to each ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714119687
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: LERTBM
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 text... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841719641
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Oxbow says: Based on the author's PhD, this volume studies 'the celestial bodies in the religious texts of ancient Egypt and in the Hellenic Orphic Hymns'. Maravelia examines the development of astronomical thought and concepts, including those... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781885923400
Published by : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Series: Oriental Institute Publications
Volume: 132
With the appearance of this volume, the Oriental Institute marks the true completion of the Egyptian Coffin Texts Project , an international cooperative program begun by James Henry Breasted and Alan H. Gardiner in 1922 and edited by Adriaan de... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780801442414
Published by : Cornell Univ Press
"Human Beings", the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they can live with that knowledge". In this, his new book, Assmann expl... .... Learn More