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Texts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypt's New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or on the contents of papyrus copies of the Book of the Dead. This book focusses on the adaptation of parts of this funerary corpus in individual tombs from the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara, with the aim of showing how each tomb's decoration was tailored to the ends of their builders. In doing so, it builds up a picture of the ways in which these developments changed over time, and captures the dynamic and shifting ways in which ancient Egyptians interacted with their funerary texts. This contrasts with the popular image of Egyptian religion as centrally administered and directed, and essentially unchanging over millennia. In fact, choices and forms of texts and images used in tombs changed even within a single generation. Some forms remained popular over long periods, being constantly reused and re-adapted, while others achieved specific and local popularity, or else were abandoned after only a short period of time. This book argues powerfully for the human dimension in ancient Egyptian religion, revealing the ways in which individuals and groups continually reshaped their tradition even as they worked within it. Produced as part of the research project The Walking Dead at Saqqara: The Making of a Cultural Geography, this book is kindly funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO): 276-30-016.

Tombs --- Ancient Egyptian religion & mythology --- Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology --- Sacred texts

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"Among the broad spectrum of ancient Egyptian religious literature, the Book of the Dead is the most representative of ancient Egyptian mortuary religion and of the magical and ritual practices belonging to it. Moreover, its rich corpus of texts and images provides unique information on the scribal practices, mortuary traditions, myths, and priestly rituals in ancient Egypt from the 2nd Millennium BCE to the Roman Period. The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Book of the Dead is the first major guide to collect and synthesize the wide-ranging body of scholarship on the Book of the Dead as well as the broader literature on ancient Egyptian religion and magic. Useful for both curious undergraduates and advanced scholars, this collection of contributions from specialists in the field will become a go-to resource for years to come on everything from the textual history of the Book of the Dead to its material origins and historical reception. Editors Rita Lucarelli and Martin Andreas Stadler have curated a singular volume that is both state of the art and comprehensive." --

Future life --- Ancient Egyptian religion --- Book of the dead. --- Book of the Dead. --- Egypt

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Die Beiträge zur Altertumskunde enthalten Monographien, Sammelbände, Editionen, Übersetzungen und Kommentare zu Themen aus den Bereichen Klassische, Mittel- und Neulateinische Philologie, Alte Geschichte, Archäologie, Antike Philosophie sowie Nachwirken der Antike bis in die Neuzeit. Dadurch leistet die Reihe einen umfassenden Beitrag zur Erschließung klassischer Literatur und zur Forschung im gesamten Gebiet der Altertumswissenschaften.

Civilization --- Platonists. --- Religion. --- Egyptian influences. --- Egypt --- Egypt. --- Rome (Empire). --- Rome --- Platonism --- Philosophers --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ancient Egyptian religion. --- Platonism. --- Plutarch.

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Le présent ouvrage, issu de la thèse de doctorat de l'auteure, vise à démontrer le caractère essentiel du référent de la naissance dans les croyances funéraires de l'Égypte pharaonique, ainsi que les modalités de sa mise en œuvre. Les grands corpus funéraires égyptiens, depuis les Textes des Pyramides jusqu'aux Livres de l'au-delà du Nouvel Empire, sont riches d'allusions à une destinée post mortem envisagée comme une seconde naissance, calquée plus ou moins fidèlement sur le processus biologique de la première. Roi ou particulier, le mort est porté en gestation par une ou plusieurs mères divines, puis est remis au monde dans l'au-delà, son cordon ombilical est coupé, il est lavé, allaité et soigné à l'image d'un nouveau-né. À ces aspects pragmatiques se mêlent de nombreux éléments mythiques, le modèle biologique étant parfois largement réinterprété, ce qui témoigne de l'interpénétration du plan individuel et du domaine cosmique. Grâce à ce procédé cyclique, non seulement le défunt accède à l'autre monde, mais il y est aussi vivant éternellement. This work, stem from a doctoral dissertation, aims at demonstrating that referring to birth and its practical modalities is an essential aspect of Ancient Egypt's funerary beliefs. From the Pyramid Texts to the books of the afterlife in the New Kingdom, funerary writings of Egypt are full of allusions to post mortem fate viewed as a second birth, which imitates more or less precisely the biological process of the first. Be he king or an ordinary man, the dead is carried in gestation by one or several divine mothers and is born again in the afterworld;))there,))his umbilical cord is cut, he is washed, fed and cared for like a newborn child. Numerous mythical elements join the purely practical ones, thus reinventing the biological model and showing the intermingling of both the worldly and the cosmic levels. Thanks to this cyclic process, not only does the deceased access the hereafter, but he is also eternally alive there.

Rites et cérémonies funéraires égyptiens --- Mort --- Aspect religieux --- Future life --- Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Religious aspects --- Ancient Egyptian religion --- Egypt --- Religion --- Civilization --- Inscriptions, Hieroglyphic --- Book of the dead. --- Coffin texts --- Pyramid texts --- Death - Religious aspects - Ancient Egyptian religion --- Funeral rites and ceremonies - Egypt --- Egypt - Religion --- Egypt - Civilization - To 332 B.C.

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The ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts form the oldest sizable body of religious texts in the world. Discovered in the late nineteenth century, they had been inscribed on the interior stone walls of the pyramid tombs of third-millennium kings and queens. From their content it is clear that they were concerned with the afterlife state of the tomb owner, but the historical meaning of their emergence has been poorly understood. This book weds traditional philological approaches to linguistic anthropology in order to associate them with two spheres of human action: mortuary cult and personal preparation for the afterlife. Monumentalized as hieroglyphs in the tomb, their function was now one step removed from the human events that had motivated their original production.

Egyptian literature -- History and criticism. --- Pyramid texts. --- Egyptian literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Altaegyptische Pyramidentexte --- Inscriptions des pyramides de Saqqarah --- Egyptian pyramid texts --- Pyramidentexte --- Altägyptischen Pyramidentexte --- Book of the dead --- Coffin texts --- Egyptian literature. --- Ancient Egyptian literature --- history of religions --- ancient egyptian religion --- ritual studies --- speech act theory --- redaction criticism --- quantitative analysis --- performance theory --- linguistic anthropology --- religious studies --- egyptology