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Gods and Men in Egypt - 3000 BCE to 395 CE (Hardcover)
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Gods and Men in Egypt - 3000 BCE to 395 CE (Hardcover)
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In their wide-ranging interpretation of the religion of ancient
Egypt, Francoise Dunand and Christiane Zivie-Coche explore how,
over a period of roughly 3500 years, the Egyptians conceptualized
their relations with the gods. Drawing on the insights of
anthropology, the authors discuss such topics as the identities,
images, and functions of the gods; rituals and liturgies; personal
forms of piety expressing humanity's need to establish a direct
relation with the divine; and the afterlife, a central feature of
Egyptian religion. That religion, the authors assert, was
characterized by the remarkable continuity of its ritual practices
and the ideas of which they were an expression.Throughout, Dunand
and Zivie-Coche take advantage of the most recent archaeological
discoveries and scholarship. Gods and Men in Egypt is unique in its
coverage of Egyptian religious expression in the Ptolemaic and
Roman periods. Written with nonspecialist readers in mind, it is
largely concerned with the continuation of Egypt's traditional
religion in these periods, but it also includes fascinating
accounts of Judaism in Egypt and the appearance and spread of
Christianity there."
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