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The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Door E.A. Wallis Budge

Categorie	Het oude Egypte
Boeknummer	#305776-VA14
Titel	The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Auteur	Wallis Budge, E.A. (translation)
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Createspace Independent Publishers
Jaar van uitgave	circa 2014
ISBN10	1499717776
ISBN13	9781499717778
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original wrappers, illustrations in b/w, unpaged, 8vo.
Samenvatting	E. A. Wallis Budge was an English philologist and writer who worked for the British museum. Budge wrote and translated a lot of works on the ancient East after taking multiple trips to Egypt and the Sudan. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is the name given to a series of ancient Egyptian funerary texts dating from 1550-50 B. C. Known in Egypt as the “Book of Coming Forth by Day,” the text has a number of magic spells that were to assist the dead person to the underworld and the afterlife. The Book of the Dead was part of a tradition of funerary texts which includes the earlier Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts, and some of the Book of the Dead's spells came from these older booksThere was no single Book of the Dead. Instead, it has come together from surviving papyrus writings that... (Lees verder) contained a selection of religious texts and spells, varying considerably in hieroglyphics and illustrations. Some Egyptians seem to have commissioned their own copies of the Book of the Dead, perhaps choosing the spells they thought most vital in their own progression to the afterlife. The Book of the Dead was placed in the coffin or burial chamber of the deceased, while spells from the Book were inscribed on the sarcophagus and tomb walls. The existence of the Book of the Dead was known as early as the Middle Ages, but nobody could understand the contents, and it was often misinterpreted as an Egyptian version of the Bible or Qu'ran. It eventually was translated during the 19th century, with the most common translation coming from E. A. Wallis Budge.
Pagina's	152
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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