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The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife Hardcover - 1999

by Erik Hornung; David Lorton (Translator)


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Ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in books that were to be discovered more than two millennia later in royal tombs. Erik Hornung, the world's leading authority on these religious texts, surveys what is known about them today.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. Hornung 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--drawings that illustrate the nocturnal course of the sun god through the realm of the dead.Originally published in German and now available in a fluid English translation, this volume offers an accessible and enlightening introduction to a central element of ancient Egyptian religion.

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  • Title The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife
  • Author Erik Hornung; David Lorton (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London
  • Date 1999-06-08
  • Features Bibliography, Maps
  • ISBN 9780801435157 / 0801435153
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.5 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.27 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
    • Cultural Region: North Africa
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99-10888
  • Dewey Decimal Code 299.31

About the author

Erik Hornung is Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Basel. He is the author of Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt, also from Cornell. An American Egyptologist, David Lorton translated Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids, by Guillemette Andreu, from Cornell. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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