Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
Yale Egyptological Seminar (1989), 159 pages
Description
Seven important essays on the study of ancient Egyptian religion. Contents: The cosmology of the pyramid texts (James P Allen); Textual criticism in the coffin texts (David P Silverman); State and religion in the New Kingdom (Jan Assmann); The natural philosophy of Akhenaten (James P Allen); Horus or the crocodiles: a juncture of religion and magic in late Dynastic Egypt (Robert K Ritner); Psychology and society in the ancient Egyptian cult of the dead (Alan B Lloyd); Death and initiation in the funerary reliion of ancient Egypt.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
vii; 159 p.
ISBN
0912532181 / 9780912532189
Local notes
MJW