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Traversing Eternity - Texts for the Afterlife from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R8,940
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Traversing Eternity - Texts for the Afterlife from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (Hardcover, New): Mark Smith

Traversing Eternity - Texts for the Afterlife from Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt (Hardcover, New)

Mark Smith

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This book studies Egyptian ideas about death and the afterlife during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods. Mark Smith analyses Egyptian attitudes toward death, looks at the various means by which the Egyptians attempted to ensure a smooth transition from existence in this world to that in the next, and examines how they envisaged life in the hereafter. Traversing Eternity is based on a corpus of sixty texts specially selected for the light which they throw upon these topics. Some of the texts are ritual in character, and were recited for the benefit of the deceased by priests, while others were interred along with the dead so that they themselves could make use of them in the afterlife. Each text is translated in its entirety, with annotation to elucidate obscure points, and each is supplied with a detailed introduction. Smith also addresses key issues such as that of continuity and change in Egyptian religious beliefs during the Ptolemaic and Roman Periods and attempts to answer the question of why the composition of texts for the afterlife flourished to such a remarkable extent at this time.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: February 2009
First published: April 2009
Authors: Mark Smith
Dimensions: 241 x 164 x 42mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 760
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815464-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Middle & Near Eastern archaeology > Egyptian archaeology
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > Ancient Egyptian religion
Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Pre-Christian European & Mediterranean religions > Ancient Egyptian religion
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LSN: 0-19-815464-X
Barcode: 9780198154648

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