Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods. Translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian. - MEEKS, D., and Chr.FAVARD-MEEKS,
KORTE INHOUD
The ?Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods? is an introduction to ancient Egyptian religion and at the same time a most interesting historiographic experiment. (?) It presents a general, synchronous interpretation of some two thousand years of religious history in ancient Egypt. (?) The first half of the book, ?The Gods among Themselves?, (?) is mainly based on myth and, on the whole, narrative elements of ancient Egyptian religious literature. The study of Egyptian mythology has to face, on the one hand, the extreme importance of myth demonstrated by allusions and quotations in each and every Egyptian religious text and, on the other hand, the scarcity of extant myths told in full. Meeks?s approach permits a comprehensive synthesis of Egyptian mythology, including materials from the Coffin Texts as well as the temples of the Greco-Roman period, two very large groups of texts that have only in recent decades begun to exert a substantial influence on the general and introductory literature on ancient Egyptian religi...
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London, 1997. VII,249p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings. Original light blue cloth with pictorial dust wrps. spine gilt titled. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: MEEKS, D., and Chr.FAVARD-MEEKS,] [Uitgever: John Murray] [Jaar: 1997] [Titel: Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods. Translated from the French by G.M. Goshgarian.]
