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Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead - The Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living (Hardcover)
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Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead - The Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard Egyptological Studies, 15
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In Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: The Realm of the Dead
through the Voice of the Living Julia Hsieh investigates the
beliefs and practices of communicating with the dead in ancient
Egypt through close lexical semantic analysis of extant Letters.
Hsieh shows how oral indicators, toponyms, and adverbs in these
Letters signal a practice that was likely performed aloud in a tomb
or necropolis, and how the senders of these Letters demonstrate a
belief in the power and omniscience of their deceased relatives and
enjoin them to fight malevolent entities and advocate on their
behalf in the afterlife. These Letters reflect universals in
beliefs and practices and how humankind, past and present, makes
sense of existence beyond death.
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