Death And Salvation In Ancient Egypt by David Lorton, Jan Assmann
Death And Salvation In Ancient Egypt

David Lorton, Jan Assmann

Death And Salvation In Ancient Egypt

David Lorton, Jan Assmann with Jan Assmann (Translator)

456 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Drawing on the unfamiliar genre of the death liturgy, he arrives at a remarkably comprehensive view of the religion of death in ancient Egypt. Assmann describes in detail nine different images of death: death as the body being torn apart, as socia...

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