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The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife

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by Erik Hornung
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Availability:In StockContributor:Erik Hornung, David Lorton (Translator)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:1999-06-08Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9780801485152ISBN-10:801485150UPC:9780801485152Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ancient, Comparative Religion, HistoryBook Topic:EgyptSize:9.20 x 6.05 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCB71BHDCX

The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife

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...

Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9780801485152ISBN-10:801485150UPC:9780801485152Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:Ancient, Comparative Religion, HistoryBook Topic:EgyptSize:9.20 x 6.05 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.6702Product ID:SCB71BHDCX

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.

Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Erik Hornung, David Lorton (Translator)

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Erik Hornung

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