Religion and Philosophy in Ancient Egypt

by W.K. Simpson

Seven important essays on the study of ancient Egyptian religion. Contents: The cosmology of the pyramid texts (James P Allen); Textual criticism in the coffin texts (David P Silverman); State and religion in the New Kingdom (Jan Assmann); The natural philosophy of Akhenaten (James P Allen); Horus or the crocodiles: a juncture of religion and magic in late Dynastic Egypt (Robert K Ritner); Psychology and society in the ancient Egyptian cult of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912532181
• ISBN13: 9780912532189
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Yale Egyptological Seminar
• Length: 159 Pages