Téléchargez le livre : Following Osiris

Following Osiris

Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four Millennia

de

Éditeur :

OUP Oxford


Paru le : 2017-02-09



eBook Téléchargement , DRM LCP 🛈 DRM Adobe 🛈
Lecture en ligne (streaming)
113,07 €
Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies
Image Louise Reader présentation

Louise Reader

Lisez ce titre sur l'application Louise Reader.

badge apple Application Louise Reader
badge Android Application Louise Reader
Description
Osiris, god of the dead, was one of ancient Egypt's most important deities. The earliest secure evidence for belief in him dates back to the fifth dynasty (c.2494-2345BC), but he continued to be worshipped until the fifth century AD. Following Osiris is concerned with ancient Egyptian conceptions of the relationship between Osiris and the deceased, or what might be called the Osirian afterlife, asking what the nature of this relationship was and what the prerequisites were for enjoying its benefits. It does not seek to provide a continuous or comprehensive account of Egyptian ideas on this subject, but rather focuses on five distinct periods in their development, spread over four millennia. The periods in question are ones in which significant changes in Egyptian ideas about Osiris and the dead are known to have occurred or where it has been argued that they did, as Egyptian aspirations for the Osirian afterlife took time to coalesce and reach their fullest form of expression. An important aim of the book is to investigate when and why such changes happened, treating religious belief as a dynamic rather than a static phenomenon and tracing the key stages in the development of these aspirations, from their origin to their demise, while illustrating how they are reflected in the textual and archaeological records. In doing so, it opens up broader issues for exploration and draws meaningful cross-cultural comparisons to ask, for instance, how different societies regard death and the dead, why people convert from one religion to another, and why they abandon belief in a god or gods altogether.
Pages
704 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2017-02-09
Marque
OUP Oxford
EAN papier
9780191089756
EAN PDF
9780191089756
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
0
Nombre pages imprimables
0
Taille du fichier
4301 Ko
Ce livre est accessible aux handicaps Voir les informations sur l'accessibilité
Prix
113,07 €
Mark Smith is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford and Lady Wallis Budge Fellow in Egyptology at University College, Oxford. Originally from the USA, he earned his PhD from the University of Chicago, Illinois, in 1979.

Suggestions personnalisées