The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife by Erik Hornung

The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife by Erik Hornung

Ancient Egyptians held a rich and complex vision of the afterlife and codified their beliefs in books that were to be discovered more than two millennia later in royal tombs. Erik Hornung, the world's leading authority on these religious texts...

It is a fortunate circumstance that Eric Hornung.. has rendered the invaluable service of producing a complete guide and manual to the texts... It now appears in an admirable English translation by David Lorton.

-- Leo Depuydt, Brown University * Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt *

Erik Hornung is Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Basel. He is the author of Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt, also from Cornell. An American Egyptologist, David Lorton translated Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids, by Guillemette Andreu, from Cornell. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

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ISBN 13	9780801485152
ISBN 10	0801485150
Title	The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife
Author	Erik Hornung
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Year published	1999-06-17
Number of pages	216
Prizes	Winner of A Main Selection of the Natural Science Book Club.
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