Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt; - Couverture souple

Breasted, Breasted

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1407672649 ISBN 13 : 9781407672649

Editeur : HardPress Ltd, 2012

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

CoNTRAKY to the popular and current impression, the most important body of sacred literature in Egypt is not theB ook of theD ead, but a much older literature which we now call the Pyramid Texts. These texts, preserved in the Fifth andS ixth Dynasty Pyramids atS akkara, form the oldest body of literature surviving from the ancient world and disclose to us the earliest chapter in the intellectual history of man as preserved to modern times. They are to the study of Egyptian language and civilization what the Vedas have been in the study of early East Indian and A ryan culture. Discovered in 1880-81, they were published by Maspero in a pioneer edition which will always remain a great achievement and a landmark in the history of Egyptology. The fact that progress has been made in the publication of such epigraphic work is no reflection upon the devoted labors of the distinguished first editor of the Pyramid Texts. The appearance last year of the exhaustive standard edition of the hieroglyphic text at the hands of Sethe after years of study and arrangement marks a new epoch in the study of earliest Egyptian life and religion. .H ow comparatively inaccessible the Pyramid Texts have been until the appearance of Sethe sedition is best illustrated by the fact that no complete analysis or full account of the Pyramid Texts as a whole has ever appeared in English, much less anE nghsh version of them.
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Présentation de l'éditeur

LECTURE I THE ORIGINS: NATURE AND THE STATE IN THEIR IMPRESSION ON RELIGION-EARLIEST SYSTEMS THE recovery of the history of the nearer Orient in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphic and Babylonian cuneiform brought with it many unexpected revelations, but none more impressive than the length of the development disclosed. In Babylonia, however, the constant influx of foreign population resulted in frequent and violent interruption of the development of civilization. In Egypt, on the other hand, the isolation of the lower Nile valley permitted a development never seriously arrested by permanent immigrations for over three thousand years. We find here an opportunity like that which the zoologist is constantly seeking in what he calls "unbroken series," such as that of the horse developing in several millions of years from a creature little larger than a rabbit to our modern domestic horse. In all the categories of human life: language, arts, government, society,

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I; COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FREE AND THE SLAVE STTES; IT is not our intention in this chapter to enter into an; elaborate ethnographical essay, to establish peculiarities; of difference, mental, moral, and physical, in the great; family of man Neither is it our design to launch into n; philosophical disquisition on the laws and principles of; light and darkness, with a view of educing any additional; evidence of the fact, that as a general rule, the rays of; the sun are more fructifying and congenial than the shades; of night Nor yet is it our purpose, by writing a formal; treati~e on ethics, to draw a broad line of distinction between; right and wrong, to point out the propriety of morality; and its advantages over immorality, nor to waste; time in pressing a universally admitted truism-that virtue; is preferable to vice Self

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HardPress Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1407672649
• ISBN 13: 9781407672649
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 408
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible