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Studies in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature

BICKEL Susanne - DÍAZ-IGLESIAS Lucía (editors)

Series: OLA 257

Item #M9545c

Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 257. Peeters, Louvain, 2017. First edition. In-4, xxii & 673 pages. Original cloth with dust-jacket, new, still under shrink wrap. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Summary: 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. The twenty contributions assembled in this volume have the three-fold objective of: offering new theoretical and methodological perspectives to evaluate the structure, content, and history of these compositions; opening challenging avenues for new interpretations; or presenting novel textual and iconographic sources. 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. Language: English. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjects: Egypt: Language, Texts & Writing, Religion & Magic.

Language: English.

Price: € 150.00  other currencies

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