Studies in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature
Publisher: Peeters Publishers & Booksellers
Published: 2017
Language: eng; fre; ger
Number of pages: 673
ISBN-13: 9789042934627
Subjects: Egypt, history; Funeral rites and ceremonies
Description: Ancient Egyptian funerary literature encompasses a complex, dynamic, and open group of texts and images selected to be deposited in mortuary settings. Despite this shared final purpose, they derive from a variety of spheres of origin (ritual, apotropaic, medical, legal) and can be concurrently used in different contexts. They further exhibit a semantic density and were transmitted across the centuries, and subjected to modifications as they were incorporated into new social, religious, or functional environments. With a wide chronological spectrum of topics addressed, the manifold approaches collected here aim to challenge traditional conceptions and procedures of analysis and to introduce new sets of ideas.