The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife

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Erik Hornung

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The ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in books that were to be discovered over two millennia later in royal tombs. In this volume, Egyptologist Erik Hornung 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 the 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, this English translation offers an introduction to one of the central elements of ancient Egyptian religion.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

June 8th, 1999

Author

Erik Hornung

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Translated by David Lorton

Pages

216

Dimensions

155x235x19

ISBN-13

9780801435157

Product ID

12684446

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