Assmann, Jan.

Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (505 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Note -- Introduction: Death and Culture -- Part One. Images of Death -- Chapter 1. Death as Dismemberment -- Chapter 2. Death as Social Isolation -- Chapter 3. Death as Enemy -- Chapter 4. Death as Dissociation: The Person of the Deceased and Its Constituent Elements -- Chapter 5. Death as Separation and Reversal -- Chapter 6. Death as Transition -- Chapter 7. Death as Return -- Chapter 8. Death as Mystery -- Chapter 9. Going Forth by Day -- Part Two. Rituals and Recitations -- Chapter 10. Mortuary Liturgies and Mortuary Literature -- Chapter 11. In the Sign of the Enemy: The Protective Wake in the Place of Embalming -- Chapter 12. The Night of Vindication -- Chapter 13. Rituals of Transition from Home to Tomb -- Chapter 14. Provisioning the Dead -- Chapter 15. Sacramental Explanation -- Chapter 16. Freedom from the Yoke of Transitoriness: Resultativity and Continuance -- Chapter 17. Freedom from the Yoke of Transitoriness: Immortality -- Afterword: Egypt and the History of Death -- Notes -- Index.

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9780801464805


Eschatology, Egyptian.
Death -- Religious aspects.
Egypt -- Religion.


Electronic books.

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