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Author : Miriam Lichtheim
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029247882
Author : Anna Mancini
Publisher : BUENOS BOOKS AMERICA LLC
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781932848106
Categories: Egyptology, philosophy of law, history of religions Unlike ancient Rome, Egypt did not transmit any legal system to us, but rather an idea of justice our modern minds can hardly understand. In the ancient Egyptian world, almost all the texts and inscriptions speak of justice. All the texts of wisdom teach that one has to conform to Maat, an obscure and omnipresent concept that Egyptologists have translated into the expression "Goddess of Truth and Justice." Egyptian justice is so different from ours that Egyptologists and historians of religions believe they have not yet fully understood its meaning. They regret this fact because understanding Maat would be a gateway to a deeper understanding of the ancient Egyptian world. As for lawyers, they have limited themselves to the Greco-Roman sources on the philosophy of Justice and the discoveries of Egyptologists in this philosophical field remain thoroughly ignored. Thanks to her experience in ancient history of law and her ability to understand ancient symbols, the author provides Egyptology with the missing pieces that were needed to form a coherent image of Maat. Once revealed, Maat sheds a new and unexpected light on the whole of Egyptian civilization. As a bridge between traditionally separate fields of academic research, this book is a useful and groundbreaking contribution to Egyptology, the history of religions and the modern philosophy of law.
Author : Miriam Lichtheim
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002175745
Author : Miriam Lichtheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Autobiographies
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040926730
Author : Eric F. Mason
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1098 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004224087
This collection of essays honors James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. An international group of scholars—including peers specializing in Second Temple Judaism and Biblical Studies, colleagues past and present, and former students—offers essays that interact in various ways with ideas and themes important in VanderKam's own work. The collection is divided into five sections spanning two volumes. The first volume includes essays on the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East along with studies on Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays in the second volume address topics in early Judaism, Enoch traditions and Jubilees, and the New Testament and early Christianity.
Author : Eric Farrel Mason
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1099 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9789004215207
This collection of essays honors James C. VanderKam on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday and twentieth year on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame. An international group of scholars including peers specializing in Second Temple Judaism and Biblical Studies, colleagues past and present, and former students offers essays that interact in various ways with ideas and themes important in VanderKam's own work. The collection is divided into five sections spanning two volumes. The first volume includes essays on the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East along with studies on Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Essays in the second volume address topics in early Judaism, Enoch traditions and Jubilees, and the New Testament and early Christianity.
Author : Elizabeth Frood,Andreas Stauder,Julie Stauder-Porchet
Publisher : Lockwood Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781948488303
(Auto-)biography is a genre of ancient Egyptian written discourse that was central to high culture from its earliest periods. Belonging to the nonroyal elites, these texts present aspects of individual lives and experience, sometimes as narratives of key events, sometimes as characterizations of personal qualities. Egyptian (auto-) biographies offer a unique opportunity to examine the ways in which individuals fashioned distinctive selves for display and the significance of the physical, religious, and social contexts they selected. The present volume brings together specialists from a range of relevant periods, approaches, and interests. The studies collected here examine Egyptian (auto-)biographies from a variety of complementary perspectives: (1) anthropological and contrastive perspectives; (2) the original Old Kingdom settings; (3) text format and language; (4) social dimensions; and (5) religious experience.
Author : Anna Mancini
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 0761823786
Western law, based on agriculture and industry, cannot deal with the virtual worlds created by the Internet, argues Mancini. The ancient Romans and Egyptians, on the other hand, were adept at virtuality, an intangible world that intersected with the tangible one, and it is to their laws that she turns for new frameworks and practices. Her study was accepted at a doctoral dissertation at the French National Scientific Research Center Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Denise M Doxey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004676725
This analysis shows how the Egyptian non-royal epithets from the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040-1640 BCE) provide new insight into the ways in which biographical self-presentation reflects religious and social attitudes and the changing relationship between elite officials and the king.
Author : Jing Wen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004528635
In The Iconography of Family Members in Egypt’s Elite Tombs of the Old Kingdom, Jing Wen offers a comprehensive survey of the depiction of family members and provides a new perspective to explain its meaning.
Author : Richard Jasnow,Ghislaine Widmer
Publisher : Lockwood Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781937040758
Illuminating Osiris comprises twenty-seven articles by students, friends, and colleagues in honor of Mark Smith, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford. Smith is especially renowned as a Demoticist and specialist in ancient Egyptian religion. His numerous Demotic text editions and translations of Egyptian funerary and religious compositions have been enormously influential in the field. The contributions in Illuminating Osiris naturally reflect Smith's particular interests in the religion and literature of Graeco-Roman period Egypt, dealing with cult, rituals, astronomy, and divination, among other subjects. The book includes many editions or reeditions of texts written in Demotic, Hieratic, and Ptolemaic Hieroglyphs. It is profusely illustrated and supplied with detailed indices.
Author : Jan Assmann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780801464805
"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 : Ihab Khalil
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781440117183
Combining meticulous research with thoughtful conclusion, this remarkable collection of essays explores ancient Egyptian and early Christian thought and leads to a better, more comprehensive understanding of these ancient peoples' key beliefs. Worlds Apart is composed of four well-written essays, each chosen with the purpose of engaging both the layperson and the researcher. Using literary, philosophical, historical, and psychological approaches, Ihab Khalil examines several important components of these two vastly different cultures. Topics include Dualism in ancient Egyptian thought The Myth of Osiris Early Christian Christology, both orthodox and heterodox Christian Mysticism Khalil includes an extensive bibliography of his sources conducive to further study and research. In addition, illustrations, footnotes, and tables complement Khalil's writing, leading to an even more thorough understanding of his subject. Insightful and deeply engaging, Worlds Apart is destined to become the definitive work on understanding the core beliefs of these two cultures.
Author : Vanessa Davies
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004380226
In Peace in Ancient Egypt, Vanessa Davies offers a new analysis of the ancient Egyptian concept of hetep ("peace").
Author : Raymond Oliver Faulkner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780300099201
Presents annotated translations of papyrus writings and tomb inscriptions from the middle and late periods of ancient Egypt.