Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife - Hornung Erik
Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife - Hornung Erik 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…
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Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife - Hornung Erik
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. 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. 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.
He also seeks to determine whether this For each composition, he discusses the history of its ancient transmission and its decipherment in modern times, supplying bibliographic information for any text editions.
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