Surveys the impact of religion as it evolved on the culture and civilization of ancient Egypt.
Foreword
xi
John A. Wilson
Preface
xv
Nature and the State Make Their Impression on Religion--Earliest Systems
3
(45)
Life after Death---The Sojourn in the Tomb---Death Makes Its Impression on Religion (Period: earliest times to 25th century B. C.)
48
(22)
Realms of the Dead---The Pyramid Texts--The Ascent to the Sky (Period: 30th to 25th century B. C.)
70
(48)
Realms of the Dead---The Earliest Celestial Hereafter (Period: 30th to 25th century B. C.)
118
(24)
The Osirianization of the Hereafter (Period: 30th to 25th century B. C.)
142
(23)
Emergence of the Moral Sense--Moral Worthiness and the Hereafter--Scepticism and the Problem of Suffering (29th century to 18th century B. C.)
165
(34)
The Social Forces Make Their Impression on Religion--The Earliest Social Regeneration (Period: 22d to 18th century B. C.)
199
(58)
Popularization of the Old Royal Hereafter---Triumph of Osiris---Conscience and the Book of the Dead---Magic and Morals (Period: 22d century to 1350 B. C.)
257
(55)
The Imperial Age--The World--State Makes Its Impression on Religion--Earliest Monotheism--Ikhnaton (Period: 1580 to 1350 B. C.)
312
(32)
The Age of Personal Piety--Sacerdotalism and Final Decadence (Period: 1350 B. C. on.)
344
(27)
Index
371
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