Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Lorton, David (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8014-7973-1
- EAN: 9780801479731
- Produktnummer: 16424469
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 504 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B16.3 cm x D3.0 cm 718 g
- Auflage: Abridged and updated by the author
- Abbildungen: 1 Halftones, black and white
- Gewicht: 718
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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