TRAVERSING ETERNITY C

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-815464-8
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 760 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1291 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith

Smith, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religion des alten Ägyptens

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Smith is Professor of Egyptology, Oxford University, and Lady Wallis Budge Fellow in Egyptology, University College, Oxford.