Egyptian Ideas Of The Afterlife

Author : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Egypt
ISBN : HARVARD:TZ1TYR

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Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge Pdf

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 : John H. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0226791645

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Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt by John H. Taylor Pdf

Of all the ancient peoples, the Egyptians are perhaps best known for the fascinating ways in which they grappled with the mysteries of death and the afterlife. This beautifully illustrated book draws on the British Museum's world-famous collection of mummies and other funerary evidence to offer an accessible account of Egyptian beliefs in an afterlife and examine the ways in which Egyptian society responded materially to the challenges these beliefs imposed. The author describes in detail the numerous provisions made for the dead and the intricate rituals carried out on their behalf. He considers embalming, coffins and sarcophagi, shabti figures, magic and ritual, and amulets and papyri, as well as the mummification of sacred animals, which were buried by the millions in vast labyrinthine catacombs. The text also reflects recent developments in the interpretation of Egyptian burial practices, and incorporates the results of much new scientific research. Newly acquired information derives from a range of sophisticated applications, such as the use of noninvasive imaging techniques to look inside the wrappings of a mummy, and the chemical analysis of materials used in the embalming process. Authoritative, concise, and lucidly written, Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt illuminates aspects of this complex, vibrant culture that still perplex us more than 3,000 years later.

Author : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OCLC:1033574956

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Egyptian Ideas of the Afterlife by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge Pdf

Author : E. A. Wallis Budge
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486158679

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Egyptian Ideas of the Afterlife by E. A. Wallis Budge Pdf

Noted Egyptologist offers concise, learned exposition of central Egyptian concept of immortality. Belief in Osiris, god of resurrection, other "gods" of Egyptians, judgment of the dead, more. 8 illustrations.

Author : Eva Von Dassow
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0811864898

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The Egyptian Book of the Dead by Eva Von Dassow Pdf

Reissue of the legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Ani, the most beautiful of the ornately illustrated Egyptian funerary scrolls ever discovered, restored in its original sequences of text and artwork.

Author : Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Egypt
ISBN : OCLC:1033561195

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Egyptian Religion by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge Pdf

Author : E. A. Wallis Sir Budge
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:4057664186041

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Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by E. A. Wallis Sir Budge Pdf

"Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life" is a treatise on the subject by Egyptologist E.A. Wallis Budge. It is intended to place before the reader in a handy form an account of the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians concerning the resurrection and the future life, which is derived wholly from native religious works. The literature of Egypt which deals with these subjects is large and, as was to be expected, the product of different periods which, when taken together, cover several thousands of years making it necessary to reconcile the statements and beliefs of a writer of one period with those of a writer of another.

Author : Bojana Mojsov
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781405143561

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Osiris by Bojana Mojsov Pdf

Bojana Mojsov tells the story of the cult of Osiris from beginning to end, sketching its development throughout 3,000 years of Egyptian history. Draws together the numerous records about Osiris from the third millennium B.C. to the Roman conquest of Egypt. Demonstrates that the cult of Osiris was the most popular and enduring of the ancient religions. Shows how the cult provided direct antecedents for many ideas, traits and customs in Christianity, including the concept of the trinity, baptism in the sacred river, and the sacrament of the Eucharist. Reveals the cult’s influence on other western mystical traditions and groups, such as the Alchemists, Rosicrucians and Freemasons. Written for a general, as well as a scholarly audience.

Author : John H. Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Book of the dead
ISBN : 0674057503

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Journey Through the Afterlife by John H. Taylor Pdf

With contributions from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinating and important work affords a greater understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears about the world beyond death.

Author : Gary A. Stilwell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Death
ISBN : 9780595342808

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Afterlife by Gary A. Stilwell Pdf

Afterlife argues that proper conduct was believed essential for determining one's post-mortem judgment from the earliest periods in ancient Egypt and Greece. Part one examines Plato's eschatological myths regarding conduct as it affects one's afterlife fate. Part two traces the evolution of afterlife beliefs from Homer to the Dramatists and demonstrates that post-mortem reward and retribution, based on one's conduct, is already found in Homer. Pythagoreanism and Orphism further develop the afterlife beliefs that will have such enormous impact on Plato and later Christianity. The third part examines Egyptian religious texts of the 5th to 18th Dynasties for their understanding of virtues and vices that have afterlife consequences. In part four, the relationship between behavior and the afterlife beliefs of both societies are compared. In the earliest periods, the afterlife texts appear to be concerned only with the elite: the king in Egypt's Pyramid Texts and the heroes in Homeric Greece. Nevertheless, we show that, from the earliest times, both societies believed that the gods, primarily Maat in Egypt and Dike in Greece, were responsible for the proper ordering of the cosmos and anyone's violations of that order would reap the direst consequence--the loss of a beneficent afterlife.

Author : Silvia Zago
Publisher : Lockwood Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781948488549

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A Journey through the Beyond by Silvia Zago Pdf

This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the evolution over time of a foundational concept of the Egyptian afterlife beliefs, the Duat, or netherworld. The Duat is a complicated, multifaceted notion, which was never canonized into a single version of the beyond, but offered instead a variety of alternatives attempting to describe the metaphysical realms beyond the visible world, and beyond life. Theological speculations gave rise to a rich textual and visual repertoire, which underwent a process of evolution over thousands of years, during which newer ideas and images were constantly introduced. Through the analysis of royal and non-royal funerary texts from the late Old Kingdom to the end of the New Kingdom, this book traces the development of the conceptualization of the notion of Duat, outlining what it encompassed and where it was imagined to be located. In addition to the translation and discussion of the most significant passages of the texts analyzed, each chapter also provides an overview of the individual compositions and of the relevant theological, cosmological, and astronomical notions complementing the conceptual framework, of which the Duat formed but a part. Additionally, discussions of concurrent changes in Egyptian culture, society, and ideology are included in order to clarify the context in which afterlife beliefs and related texts evolved. An analysis of the correlation between funerary compositions and their material supports complements the study, emphasizing the Egyptians' belief in a magical synergy between texts, images, and their contexts in the activation of a suitable, effective afterlife for the recipients of the texts.

Author : Julia Hsieh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004472327

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Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead by Julia Hsieh Pdf

In Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: The Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living Julia Hsieh investigates the beliefs and practices of communicating with the dead in ancient Egypt as evidenced through extant Letters and provides detailed textual analysis.

Author : Jan Assmann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801464867

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Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt by Jan Assmann Pdf

"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 his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites in ancient Egypt to provide startling new insights into the particular character of the civilization as a whole. Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt. Assmann describes in detail nine different images of death: death as the body being torn apart, as social isolation, the notion of the court of the dead, the dead body, the mummy, the soul and ancestral spirit of the dead, death as separation and transition, as homecoming, and as secret. Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt also includes a fascinating discussion of rites that reflect beliefs about death through language and ritual.

Author : Saphinaz-Amal Naguib
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Antiquities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032185642

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Funerary Statuettes by Saphinaz-Amal Naguib Pdf

Author : Erik Hornung
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0801485150

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The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife by Erik Hornung Pdf

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.